Gondor Launches

For further reading, Gondor has been discussed previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2075158

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728855

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728855

(From their website, like Heroku)

Gondor was designed for people who want to deploy their Django sites early and often.

Whether it's feature branches in development being deployed for review and testing, or a multi-server dedicated production stack, Gondor frees you up to focus on your site, not your infrastructure.

Gondor supports:

    command-line deployment
    unlimited domains
    revision control via git or mercurial
    dependency management using pip
    database migrations via South or nashvegas
    full backups of your entire application
    asynchronous and scheduled task execution
    full-text search using Solr and django-haystack
    caching via redis

The pricing structure seems extremely reasonable. I hope Django developers jump on board and keep them afloat.

One of the reasons I switched from Django to Rails was because of the community support in the form of awesome tools like Heroku. If Gondor had been around a year ago I likely wouldn't have switched.

I know it's a tech thing, but it's a really good idea in the practice of launch posts to explain what the thing is and what it does, at least to some degree.