Category: Deployment and Hosting
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Managing Static and Media Files with Cloud Storage in Django
Modern web applications need to handle and serve a variety of static and media files — CSS, JavaScript, images, videos, and user uploads. As your project grows and traffic increases, serving these files directly from your Django server becomes inefficient and difficult to scale. A powerful solution to this problem is cloud storage. Django integrates…
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Using Docker for Django Deployment
This version expands your outline into a full professional blog post with structured explanations, clear headings, and multiple code examples.No icons or emojis are used — only text, headings, and clean code blocks. Introduction Modern web development requires consistency, scalability, and efficiency. One of the biggest challenges developers face is ensuring that an application runs…
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Deploying Django on DigitalOcean
Deploying a Django application on DigitalOcean is one of the most reliable and cost-effective ways to host your web projects in a production environment. DigitalOcean provides powerful, easy-to-use virtual servers called Droplets that make it possible to deploy a Django app from development to production with full control over your environment. In this comprehensive 3000-word…
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Deploying Django on Heroku
Introduction Deploying a Django application to production can often feel like a complex process involving server configuration, database setup, and managing static files. However, Heroku provides a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that simplifies deployment dramatically. With Heroku, you don’t need to worry about infrastructure details such as provisioning servers, configuring Nginx, or maintaining operating systems. Instead, you…
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Deploying Django on AWS EC2
Deploying Django on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is one of the most reliable and scalable ways to host a Django application. Amazon EC2 provides flexible virtual servers (instances) that give you full control over your hosting environment — from operating system configuration to web server management. This post will guide you through every step…
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Using HTTPS and SSL Certificates in Django
In today’s digital world, security is not an optional feature—it’s an absolute necessity. Whether you’re building a small blog or a large-scale web application, protecting user data should be your top priority. One of the most fundamental steps in securing your web app is using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) instead of plain HTTP. This…
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Serving Static and Media Files in Django
One of the most common challenges Django developers face when deploying their applications to production is how to correctly serve static and media files. During development, Django automatically handles static files for convenience. However, in production environments, Django does not serve these files directly — for very good reasons related to performance, scalability, and security.…
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Deploying Django Applications with Gunicorn and Nginx
It expands your short outline into a detailed, structured, and professional article — suitable for technical blogs, documentation, or learning materials.No icons or emojis are used. It includes clear headings, subheadings, explanations, and code. Introduction Deploying a Django application to production is one of the most important milestones in any web project. After developing and…
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Preparing Django for Production
Introduction Deploying a Django project into production is one of the most crucial steps in the web development lifecycle. While developing locally, you might be using Django’s built-in development server, SQLite database, and debug mode. However, once you move to production, the environment must be configured for security, scalability, and performance. This detailed guide will…
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Introduction to Django Deployment
Deploying a Django project is one of the most important steps in the web development lifecycle. It’s the process of taking your Django application from your local development environment and making it accessible to users on the internet. While development focuses on rapid testing and debugging, deployment focuses on stability, security, and performance. In this…