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deccico

>>such as declaring your apps templates directory when by default Django searches all apps for a templates directory.

I don't think so. Removing the templates directory gives you an exception. Maybe you are using another loader?

>>Also running nearly everything as root.

Right, this was meant for starters so I didn't want to complicate things. But I just added some options so now Upstart will run GUnicorn under other user.

Heroku support to Django is promising but it still has things to improve like database access which is a performance bottleneck.

Also I don't think comfortable having all this uncontrolled "magic" happening.

EC2 is free for a year so I think it's worth giving it a shot.

>>1 / 4

Noted

>2

I chose GUnicorn for being more popular and easier to install. Performance difference seems to be very small and not sure how things evolved in last versions.

>3

Certainly not what I want for an introduction.