python-getting-started VS flyctl

For those of you who are new to Python (as I am), I used the Getting Started on Heroku with Python documentation as a helpful guide.

After setting up a Heroku account, we’re nearly ready to deploy. Let’s walk through the steps.

I did set that as the video tutorial from codemy.com that I was watching instructed to do so. But I was able to solve this issue I believe by following the settings.py file on this Github repo (which included moving the whitenoise middleware after the security middleware) and adding STATICFILES_DIRS = BASE_DIR / 'static' (along with deleting the old syntax that I had commented out) while following the steps (including manually running 'python manage.py collectstatic') on this Stack Overflow answer. Now time will tell if the static files will persist or if I will run into an issue when the Heroku dyno restarts.

Here's Heroku's own guide to hosting a python site: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python

(venv)avlahop@apostolos-laptop:~/development/django/rhombus-dental$ sudo pip install psycopg2Downloading/unpacking psycopg2,Downloading psycopg2-2.5.2.tar.gz (685kB): 685kB downloadedRunning setup.py egg_info for package psycopg2Installing collected packages: psycopg2 Running setup.py install for psycopg2 building 'psycopg2.\_psycopg' extension x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DPSYCOPG_DEFAULT_PYDATETIME=1 -DPSYCOPG_VERSION="2.5.2 (dt dec pq3 ext)" -DPG_VERSION_HEX=0x09010D -DPSYCOPG_EXTENSIONS=1 -DPSYCOPG_NEW_BOOLEAN=1 -DHAVE_PQFREEMEM=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I. -I/usr/include/postgresql -I/usr/include/postgresql/9.1/server -c psycopg/psycopgmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg/psycopgmodule.o -Wdeclaration-after-statement In file included from psycopg/psycopgmodule.c:27:0: ./psycopg/psycopg.h:30:20: fatal error: Python.h: Δεν υπάρχει τέτοιο αρχείο ή κατάλογος #include ^ compilation terminated. error: command 'x86\_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;\_\_file\_\_='/tmp/pip\_build\_root/psycopg2/setup.py';exec(compile(open(\_\_file\_\_).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), \_\_file\_\_, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-SgfQCA-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed:running installrunning buildrunning build_pycreating buildcreating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/pool.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/errorcodes.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/_json.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/_range.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/extensions.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/psycopg1.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/tz.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2copying lib/extras.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/testconfig.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopyng tests/test_bug_gc.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_dates.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_copy.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_cancel.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_bugX000.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_extras_dictcursor.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_psycopg2_dbapi20.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_types_basic.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_async.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_lobject.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_cursor.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_with.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_types_extras.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/testutils.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_notify.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_green.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_quote.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_connection.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_transaction.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/dbapi20.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/test_module.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testscopying tests/dbapi20_tpc.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg2/testsrunning build_extbuilding 'psycopg2.\_psycopg' extensioncreating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopgx86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DPSYCOPG_DEFAULT_PYDATETIME=1 -DPSYCOPG_VERSION="2.5.2 (dt dec pq3 ext)" -DPG_VERSION_HEX=0x09010D -DPSYCOPG_EXTENSIONS=1 -DPSYCOPG_NEW_BOOLEAN=1 -DHAVE_PQFREEMEM=1 -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I. -I/usr/include/postgresql -I/usr/include/postgresql/9.1/server -c psycopg/psycopgmodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psycopg/psycopgmodule.o -Wdeclaration-after-statementIn file included from psycopg/psycopgmodule.c:27:0:./psycopg/psycopg.h:30:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory #include ^compilation terminated.error: command 'x86\_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1----------------------------------------Cleaning up...Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;\_\_file\_\_='/tmp/pip\_build\_root/psycopg2/setup.py';exec(compile(open(\_\_file\_\_).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), \_\_file\_\_, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-SgfQCA-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/psycopg2Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in load_entry_point('pip==1.4.1', 'console\_scripts', 'pip')() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/\_\_init\_\_.py", line 148, in main return command.main(args[1:], options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 169, in main text = '\n'.join(complete_log)UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 54: ordinal not in range(128) I also get errors trying to install gunicorn. I followed this example here but nothing. My virtual environment was created using the --no-site-packagesflag. I use ubuntu 13.10 and greek environment. Maybe it's that?

To begin with, you could go with a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider like Heroku, or Fly for a more seamless experience. You can also do a bit of DevOps: set up a Docker installation on a VPS and deploy your app there.

To begin visit fly.io to create an account. Next install flyctl a command line tool for creating and deploying fly apps. macOS

For frontend deployment, I used Netlify (for the generous free package) and the recommended fly.io for server + database (also cheap package).

Create an account on Fly.io.

You can learn more about fly.io and tigris, we will need to create an account on both platforms for this project regardless. Anyway with the theory out of the way let's get started in the next section as we create our accounts and start building the app.

Fly.io is a platform that helps you run your apps and databases closer to your users all around the world. It takes your app code, packages it up neatly, and puts it on virtual machines that can be quickly started or stopped. This makes your app faster for users and more reliable. Fly.io is easy to use, works well for small projects or personal apps. It's a great way to make sure your app runs smoothly for people no matter where they are.

In this post, we'll start from scratch, running FerretDB locally via Docker, trying out the connection with mongosh and the MongoDB Node.js client, and finally deploy FerretDB to Fly.io for a production ready set up.

2- fly.io

Fly is a cloud platform that focuses on global edge computing. Fly specializes in high-performance hosting and provides a global network of edge locations. Fly is known for its scalability and performance optimizations.

But videototextai.com is built using NextJS + Firebase auth + Firestore and a backend deployed at fly.io . Fly makes it really easy to deploy docker containers and that is IMO the fastest way to develop, you can setup a local setup