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Ask HN: PaaS for a beginner
I need to deploy my Flask web app (with a database) to the cloud. I don't want to invest considerable amount of time on setup, that's why I want to go with PaaS, not IaaS.
As of 2017, what are the viable options for hosting low traffic web-app (few thousand visits per month) with sudden spikes in traffic (500+ realtime users)?
I am deciding between Heroku and App Engine(both have free tier, which is great), but since I don't know much about it would like to get your advice. Thanks!
- mjhea0 9y agoFor help setting up Flask + Heroku, check out the first two parts of Flask by Example >> https://realpython.com/blog/python/flask-by-example-part-1-project-setup/ https://realpython.com/blog/python/flask-by-example-part-1-p.... AWS + Docker is probably just as easy. Check out http://testdriven.io/ http://testdriven.io/ for details on how to configure Flask + Docker + Amazon EC2.