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Pivotal Web Services (PWS) vs PythonAnywhere: What are the differences?

Developers describe Pivotal Web Services (PWS) as "Deploy, Update and Scale Applications On-Demand". Pivotal Web Services is a public cloud version of the widely supported Open Source Cloud Foundry PaaS. PWS makes is an ideal platform for the rapid deployment, easy scaling and binding of third party apps for Java, PHP, Ruby, GO and Python apps. Focus on apps not dev ops. On the other hand, PythonAnywhere is detailed as "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.

Pivotal Web Services (PWS) and PythonAnywhere belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.

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Pros of Pivotal Web Services (PWS)
Pros of PythonAnywhere
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      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 Pivotal Web Services (PWS)
    Cons of PythonAnywhere
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        No root access
      • 1
        Really small community

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      What is Pivotal Web Services (PWS)?

      Pivotal Web Services is a public cloud version of the widely supported Open Source Cloud Foundry PaaS. PWS makes is an ideal platform for the rapid deployment, easy scaling and binding of third party apps for Java, PHP, Ruby, GO and Python apps. Focus on apps not dev ops.

      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 Pivotal Web Services (PWS) and PythonAnywhere?
      Heroku
      Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
      Google App Engine
      Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
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