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Hi,

I have been working on a web application with a remote developer for some time. We built a reasonable prototype in Google Cloud originally and the application is currently set up for this. The developer is now too busy to work with me and Google Cloud is too expensive to run in the development phase it is in now. I have cloned the repository into PythonAnywhere as I am keen to go ahead with your offerings, but it would be great if you could point me to where I need to change the code. I believe the Developer held the code in App Engine and used a SQL Cloud for the database and PostGreSQL for local development.

I’m relatively new to python and this is the first time I’ve touched Django. I’ve only ever used Ruby on Rails before and even then only deployed to Heroku.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Dave

Hi Dave, we don't have a specific guide called "how to migrate from google cloud" I'm afraid! But here's a few things you're likely to need to configure/change:

• the database config (as you've guessed). Probably mysql is fine for now? there's some tips on configuring django with mysql on pythonanywhere here

• you'll probably want to set up a virtualenv with the right version of django in it

• you'll probably need to set up your static files with django using the pythonanywhere static files system

• finally, if your developer was using environment variables for some config settings, there's a guide to using environment variables here