Django Unleashed

29.2 Preparing for Deployment

Once you’ve picked a company to host your website with, it’s time to dive into the documentation.

If you’re following along with the site on Github and deploying to Heroku, you won’t actually need to read much of Heroku’s documentation, but its “Getting Started with Python”¹ will be very helpful.

1. https://dju.link/heroku-start

Heroku works with dynos and add-ons. A dyno, sometimes called a worker, is an increment of power. The more dynos you have, the more visitors you can handle. Internally, a dyno is simply a Linux container with the website and all dependencies, allowing Heroku to quickly create dynos as well as pass dynos around from computer to computer (as they fail or are added to Heroku’s internal system). ...