Django: vps or shared hosting? [closed]
I've been using Webfaction for shared hosting of Django. The price is pretty decent, they have good forums, and have a nice web-based interface to help get you setup. Despite the web interface, it doesn't impede you from having full control over your site form the command line. You can host all sorts of things, from Django to Rails, to PHP, and mysql. For smaller sites, it works nicely. I'm not sure how the performance works under high load, but you can always start small and upgrade to a vps. I've never had direct contact with the support personel there, but the documentation seems good. I don't mean for this to sound like a plug, but it's been pretty good for shared hosting. If you have any questions about it, I'll be glad to answer.
Django runs on GoogleAppEngine but php doesn't.Your Django code will have to use Google's datastore models instead of Django's usual ORM, so there is some tie in to GAE - if you decide you want to host your own app later on it could be quite a lot of work.
If you go with a VPS obviously you can run Django and php together, but you'll need to choose a webserve, maybe a firewall, maybe load balancing later on.
Clicks per day isn't really useful, you need to know how many clicks per second you get at peak time.
Cheap hosting providers will provide less help than expensive ones.
Is one VPS going to be enough? What is the impact if it goes down? It's harder to do major upgrades if you only have one server.
With a VPS you need to back your data up somewhere. The hosting may do offsite backups for you, but it's a good idea to have some yourself too.
I don't know how easy it is to backup your data from GAE, but it's probably a good idea if the data is valuable.