By Garrett Love
Hi,
I am beginner Django Developer and have been learning by developing local apps. I am looking to finally deploy something so people can use it. I have been looking around at various hosting providers and I am wondering what it’s like using Digital Ocean for Django hosting. Specifically what exactly is involved/required with managing a Django app on Digital Ocean. Hostgator, which is another host I’ve been looking at, does not offer any “one-click” install for stuff like Nginx or anything else which I noticed Digital Ocean does have, so I would have to install that that as well as anything else I’d need myself. I guess my question is after that one click install what is involved with managing a Django app on Digital Ocean? Do I have to learn how to do a ton of other stuff regarding managing a server and dealing with Nginx (I would have to do that on HostGator) or does that One-click install for Django handle all that? Also other than Django, are there any skills that I have to learn in order to be able to do this?
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Hi there,
For anyone who comes across this in the future, if you don’t have experience in managing and configuring your own Linux servers, I would recommend trying out the DigitalOcean App Platform where you would only have to link your GitHub project and the rest will be all done automatically for you:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/tutorials/app-deploy-django-app/
Best,
Bobby
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