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Do people run django production sites on Windows? Not trolling, genuinely interested.

I run a couple of medium sized intranet projects with Django on Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008. Not ideal but if you want to use Django, it's sometimes a necessity in corporate MS only environments.

I currently maintain and run a big ol' Django project running on Apache/Windows/MSSQL (and some Oracle) here (university of Arizona). It's not that bad although myself and the other developer both use mac's so its annoying having to RDP in to do anything in a python shell.

If you only use the shell, can't you use something like an SSH daemon on Windows and ssh to it?

Is there any decent SSH daemon on Windows? And what shell does/would it run? cmd.exe?

Some people dislike it but I use Cygwin when I want access to the various unix standard tools on a Windows box (including the openssh daemon).

http://www.cygwin.com/

The setup.exe is both the installer and the package manager.

I recommend trying out Mintty for Cygwin if you haven't already. I love it.

Have you tried powershell remoting ? It's close.

Unless I'm mistaken, this isn't possible in OSX is it?

no, but you can use a Windows VM.

How is that relevant? One of the nice features of a language like Python is that it's very easy to write cross-platform code with it. You really have to do effort to code a python web app on Windows that breaks on Linux. The same holds for e.g. Ruby, Node.js and Java.

I prefer Windows for a dev platform (really, I do), but I've only once written a webapp that was hosted on Windows. I'd much rather prefer unixy servers.

I have a few internal sites in production that run on IIS with FastCGI (using https://github.com/antoinemartin/django-windows-tools).

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