After a week of reading, thinking, playing around with code and talking to the friendly folks in #django on irc.freenode.net, I have decided that next year I will rebuild crashsystems.net with Django. Why last year, you might ask? I have been contemplating a switch of web host recently. Bluehost.com tech support is rather friendly and nice, but their server’s seem a bit slow, likely due to overselling. After a plethora of advice, some of which was conflicting, I have decided that I will switch to WebFaction.com, both due to general good reports by people who have purchased their services, as well as their support of Django 1.0.
As for why I’ve decided to switch to Django, there are several reasons. First of all, I’ve decided recently to start getting into server-side programming. With 1/3 of the world connected to the Internet, and the other 2/3 likely to be connected within the next two decades, website programming is not only a very useful skill, but a very important one as well. The reason why I’m switching my site to Django in specific is because I am already familiar with Python, and have heard a lot of good things about Django. This framework allows developers to launch fully functional websites with advanced features in a fraction of the time it would take to write all those features from the ground up in PHP, or even with Python without a framework, for that matter.
I think that moving my site to Django will be good incentive for me to practice what I am learning. Also, though such a site will require a little more work than a WordPress powered site, it will also be far more versatile as well. I still think that WordPress is a really good blogging platform / CMS. However, in being so easy to use, it does detract somewhat from potential versatility.
Besides, everyone and their mother has sites powered by WordPress, so why follow the crowd?
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I’ll be posting an update soon once I have decided upon what apps I’ll be using, features, etc.
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Guess you’re making good decisions here. I decided to keep my blog on wordpress, after spending quite some time with building my own stuff from nothing. Since it took me too much of my spare time, decided for wordpress. I know, i’m 1 of zillions, but well, i think my spare time is important. I hope you can find the time to set all things up. Since you have chosen a good kick ass platform, i guess you will manage to do so! I’ll subscribe to ur feed, cuz i’m curious about the progress you will be making.
cheers
I don’t think my switch will take much coding on my part, initially at least. There are a crapload of plug-n-play apps that others have made (http://djangoplugables.com/projects/), which cover all the functionality that I want.
In the future I hope to find an app idea that someone has not already implemented. I’ll keep my fingers crossed!
Checked out that site and i wish you good luck with your phrase:
“In the future I hope to find an app idea that someone has not already implemented. I’ll keep my fingers crossed!” ;P
looking good buddy! i think ill be switching the Keryx website over to Django sometime if i dont end up getting a web designer to make a new site for me by then. Python is so versatile it amazes me!
Good choice of host
I’ve been with WebFaction for over 2 years and they absolutely rock!