Deploying a Django Website as a confused Earth Science programmer
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Deploying a Django website is hard, especially if you don’t know anything about linux, web servers, or front-end/back-end. In my case of setting up a website for a lake research project, it was impossible. Thankfully, leveraging a couple of very cool tutorials and taking shameless advantage of AWS free tier (which can then be transitioned to a free/cheap non-profit account cuz research is non-profit), we can deploy a Django website in HTTP! HTTPS - which has an extra S - has security, so you need to buy a domain (not free!) and get a free security certificate from something like Let’s Encrypt - a company!