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> When I used Django, it would randomly "go down" when some library changed on my host. I haven't had that problem. Django is alright IMO, if a little "heavy"

• BeetleB 9y ago
  >I haven't had that problem. Django is alright IMO, if a little "heavy" on machinery. It might help to keep in mind that I've had Django running on a server since around 2008. You can imagine that Django has changed a lot since then. Every year or two the site would go down as the host would change their Python libraries. So I'd need to update Django, which was always nontrivial if you're changing from a version that was a few years older. Perhaps Django is stable enough now that you can upgrade Django versions every 3-4 years and have it go smoothly. But not in those years. Arguably, you could say I should have had my own Python + Django + all libs installed in my user area and not have relied on my host's environment. Or used a Django friendly host that provides this to you automatically. At that point I'd go back to my question: Given that a SSG gives you a blog right out of the box, why should I even consider Django? I don't want to be constrained by hosts, and I don't want to have my own custom Python install for each site I host.