I decide to make a website for my wedding with a list of gift, my honneymoon, presentation of my witnesses and so on.

I was looking for a litlle CMS with a “list of gift” (an online shopping) which can be installed on cheap and reliable hosting (And it’s when I loose Plone)

Pyramid vs Django

I started looking on Pyramid (because I’m a Plone/Zope dev). I thought Kotti, but I didn’t find a way to make easily gift, and I thougt project looks cool, but it’was maybe a little young for my kind of requirements. I didn’t find good solution on pyramid for a wedding list.

Such as I have some exprience in Django, And in my daily work, we started intereset on Geonode for GIS project.

-> I started looking on Django !

Django CMS vs Mezzanine

Django CMS and Django CMS e-commerce plugin. But it seems this project is a almost dead ? Last commit on github make me septic.

With little search, I found Mezzanine and Cartridge. I try it and It seems perfect for my porject, So I choose it !

Hosting

My first choose was OVH, because it’s very cheap (5€ / month). But with little search, it is almost impossible to create a complex Django site (by complex, I mean a “Mezzanine” Django site, and it’s not very complex). I pursued my searching… And I found Webfaction. They have local pythons, postgres, 600Go data for 10 € / month. It looks perfect for me, except they do not manage domain name directly. So I host my wedding site on webfaction and my domain name on OVH.1

Maybe I could made an heroku Django website, but I was little affraid about complexity.

Next step is to create an online shop with Kotti or with Pyramid !