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Flynn vs PythonAnywhere: What are the differences?

Flynn: Next generation open source platform as a service. Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds; PythonAnywhere: Micro PaaS for Python web apps. Develop and host Python from your browser. It's somewhat unique. A small PaaS that supports web apps (Python only) as well as scheduled jobs with shell access. It is an expensive way to tinker and run several small apps.

Flynn and PythonAnywhere belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.

"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider Flynn over the competitors, whereas "Web apps" was stated as the key factor in picking PythonAnywhere.

Flynn is an open source tool with 7.24K GitHub stars and 534 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flynn's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Flynn
Pros of PythonAnywhere
  • 6
    Free
  • 5
    Supports few types of containers:libvirt-lxc, docker
  • 2
    PostgreSQL HA
  • 2
    Easy setup
  • 1
    12-factor methodology
  • 15
    Web apps
  • 11
    Easy Setup
  • 8
    Great support
  • 8
    Shell access
  • 8
    Free plan
  • 7
    Super-easy to use
  • 5
    Libraries
  • 2
    Many things like Python are pre-installed

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Cons of Flynn
Cons of PythonAnywhere
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    • 1
      No root access
    • 1
      Really small community

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    What is Flynn?

    Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds.

    What is PythonAnywhere?

    It's somewhat unique. A small PaaS that supports web apps (Python only) as well as scheduled jobs with shell access. It is an expensive way to tinker and run several small apps.

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    What are some alternatives to Flynn and PythonAnywhere?
    Deis
    Deis can deploy any application or service that can run inside a Docker container. In order to be scaled horizontally, applications must follow Heroku's 12-factor methodology and store state in external backing services.
    Kubernetes
    Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
    Dokku
    It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.
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    The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
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