Hi Antony, I think that the main issue would be that the vast majority of Django developers deploy on Unix/ Linux. As such, there is probably more activity with development of open source software to support Django on those platforms than there is on Windows.
Regarding the fact that your company does not have a Linux sys admin, I can only say that it really depends on what you need to do. There are really good hosts out there that will manage your Linux box for you and give great support. If all you want is a stable, secure and performant environment to deploy web applications on, you could get one of these dedicated boxes, have it managed for you, and you could get software like PuTTY/ Tunnelier ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ or http://www.putty.org/) to connect to and manage the Linux server from Windows. There is a lot of detail that I am skipping, but you might want to consider going the Linux route for Django hosting. I think that you would have less compatibility problems that way, and if you do need assistance there is a huge community and accessible software code bases. Regards, Lloyd On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:22 PM, ashdesigner <antony.shash...@gmail.com>wrote: > Guys, > > As I can judge from the posts and links above, an ISAPI plugin > (PyISAPIe) which is declared the best and fastest way to run Django > apps on Windows and primarily intended to be used with IIS (although > it is announced to work with Apache as well) simply doesn't work > smothly with IIS. Or at least no one can say anything particular about > the way PyISAPIe under IIS can be set up and running. As for me, it > seems rather weird - or maybe I just don't get the point. > > Anthony > > On Dec 2, 4:39 pm, CrabbyPete <pete.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not saying not to use IIS, I could just not get it to work. Other > > people have asked how to get it work as well. Its not easy and I would > > love to here from someone that was able to get it to work with IIS. I > > developed everything on windows, and running Apache on windows was > > great. No headaches and easy to debug if I ran into problems. I have a > > friend who was a windows admin look at what I was doing with IIS and > > he could not figure it out. If you know IIS and want to try it, I > > would love to know how you made out with it. > > > > On Dec 1, 8:40 am, ashdesigner <antony.shash...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Pete, > > > > > Does this mean that we shouldn't even try to run it on IIS7 in > > > production? > > > > > On Dec 1, 4:27 pm, CrabbyPete <pete.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I developed Djano on a windows server and everything went smoothly > > > > except getting it to work with IIS. I loaded apache on windows and it > > > > works great. > > > > > > On Dec 1, 6:43 am, ashdesigner <antony.shash...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > I am absolutely new to Python/Django. Being responsible for a large > > > > > corporate startup project and having looked through a number of > MVC/ > > > > > MVT frameworks I decided to outsource the webproject in Django. > > > > > > > The only undiscovered issue to us is whether we can launch a heavy > > > > > loaded website in Django under Windows (IIS) + MSSQL. Would > appreciate > > > > > any comment please. > > > > > > > Anthony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Regards, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
