How much does Django hosting cost?

On your own server, about $6 a month for a small app: a Hetzner CX23 at EUR 5.49 plus the Appliku Free plan. A production setup with cron jobs and nightly database backups is about $28 a month. Rented platforms charge per service, so the same stack usually costs several times more.

Is there free Django hosting?

There are free tiers and provider credits, and they work for demos and learning. They tend to sleep when idle and expire after a trial period. The Appliku free plan is free forever for one app, but you still pay your cloud provider for the server, which is a few dollars a month.

Can I run Django on shared web hosting?

Rarely, and not well. Django needs a long-running Python process, a real database, and a way to run migrations on each release. Shared hosting is built to serve files. A small VPS costs about the same and does the job properly.

Do I have to manage the server myself?

No. Appliku installs and configures everything on your server, runs your deploys, renews SSL, and keeps the runtime patched. You get root SSH if you want it, and you never need it.

Do I need to know Docker to host Django?

No. Appliku builds your app into a container for you and you never write a Dockerfile, though you can bring your own if you prefer. Your app, databases, and workers all run as containers on the same server.

Which cloud provider should I use for Django?

Hetzner is the cheapest for the resources, with locations in Germany, Finland, Singapore, and the United States. DigitalOcean costs more and has more regions. AWS makes sense if you are already there. Appliku runs on all of them and on any plain Linux server reachable over SSH.

Django hosting on a server you own.

A real Django app needs a web process, a Postgres database, static files, HTTPS, and usually a background worker. Here is what that costs on your own server, and what you give up if you rent it from a platform instead.

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What Django hosting actually costs

One server runs the whole stack: your web process, Postgres, Redis, and your workers, all in containers. You pay the cloud provider for the server and Appliku for managing it. Nothing is metered per service, so adding Redis or a second worker does not change the bill.

Setup	Server	Good for	Per month
Hetzner + Appliku Free	CX23, 2 vCPU, 4 GB €5.49	One app, up to 3 deploys a week	about $6
Hetzner + Hobby	CX23, 2 vCPU, 4 GB €5.49	Unlimited apps and deploys, custom domains	about $16
Hetzner + Growth	CX33, 4 vCPU, 8 GB €8.49	A product with paying users: cron jobs and database backups	about $28
DigitalOcean + Hobby	2 vCPU, 4 GB $24	You already use DigitalOcean	$34
DigitalOcean + Growth	4 vCPU, 8 GB $48	Heavier traffic, multiple apps and servers	$66

Server prices are provider list prices checked on 2026-08-12. Hetzner bills in EUR, so the dollar column is a conversion and moves with the exchange rate. Appliku plan prices are the annual rate divided by twelve; the monthly option costs slightly more. You pay the cloud provider directly, so you keep the server if you ever leave.

Why cheap web hosting does not work for Django

Most hosting sold as "web hosting" is built for PHP: you upload files and the server runs them. Django does not work that way. It is a long-running Python process, and it needs five things that shared hosting rarely gives you.

A process that stays running: Django runs behind a WSGI or ASGI server such as Gunicorn or Uvicorn, restarted on every deploy and kept alive between requests.
A real Postgres database: SQLite is fine on your laptop and painful in production. Postgres is the default choice, and it needs somewhere to live.
Somewhere to run migrations on deploy: Every release runs migrate and collectstatic before the new code takes traffic. Uploading files by FTP cannot do that.
Static and media files: Your CSS and uploads are served separately from the app, either by the web server or from object storage.
A background worker, sooner than you think: Sending email, generating reports, calling an API: that work belongs in Celery or another queue, which is a second process next to the web one.

A small VPS gives you all five. The work is in setting it up and keeping it patched, which is the part Appliku does for you.

Managed, self-managed, or rented

There are three honest ways to host Django, and the right one depends on how you want to spend your time.

Do it yourself on a VPS

Cheapest in money, most expensive in time. You install and patch everything, and you own every outage at 2 in the morning.

From about $6 a month, plus your evenings.

Managed on a server you own

You rent the server from any cloud, and we set it up, deploy to it, and keep it running. Flat price, root access if you ever want it, and no lock-in because the server is in your account.

From about $6 a month on the Free plan.

Rent a platform

Simplest to start, and the bill grows with every service you add, because each one is metered. Moving away later means rebuilding your deployment.

Price it for your own app with the calculators below.

Which one should you pick?

A side project you want online this evening: The smallest Hetzner server and the Free plan. One app, three deploys a week, unlimited databases and workers. About $6 a month, and you can stay there for as long as it stays a side project.
Your first paying customers: Growth, for the database backups and cron jobs. The moment other people depend on your app, unattended backups stop being optional.
A small team with staging: Growth covers three servers, so production and staging live apart without doubling the platform bill. Unlimited team members on every paid plan.
An agency with client apps: Business or Enterprise. Each client keeps their own server in their own cloud account, which makes handover simple: you give them the account and walk away.

Looking for free Django hosting?

That is a different question with a different answer, and we wrote it up separately: provider credits, real free tiers, what each one costs once the trial ends, and which ones put your app to sleep.

Read: best free Django hosting in 2026 →

Already paying a platform?

Put your current setup in and see the same app on a server you own.

Ready to deploy? The Django deploy guide walks through a first deploy end to end: server, Postgres, Gunicorn, HTTPS, static files, and the release command that runs your migrations.

Django hosting questions

How much does Django hosting cost?: On your own server, about $6 a month for a small app: a Hetzner CX23 at €5.49 plus the Appliku Free plan. A production setup with cron jobs and nightly database backups is about $28 a month. Rented platforms charge per service, so the same stack usually costs several times more.
Is there free Django hosting?: There are free tiers and provider credits, and they work for demos and learning. They tend to sleep when idle and expire after a trial period. Our free plan is different: it is free forever for one app, but you still pay your cloud provider for the server, which is a few dollars a month.
Can I run Django on shared web hosting?: Rarely, and not well. Django needs a long-running Python process, a real database, and a way to run migrations on each release. Shared hosting is built to serve files. A small VPS costs about the same and does the job properly.
Do I have to manage the server myself?: No. That is what Appliku is. We install and configure everything on your server, run your deploys, renew SSL, and keep the runtime patched. You get root SSH if you want it, and you never need it.
Do I need to know Docker?: No. Appliku builds your app into a container for you and you never write a Dockerfile, though you can bring your own if you prefer. Your app, databases, and workers all run as containers on the same server.
Which cloud provider should I use?: Hetzner is the cheapest for the resources, with locations in Germany, Finland, Singapore, and the United States. DigitalOcean costs more and has more regions. AWS makes sense if you are already there. Appliku runs on all of them and on any plain Linux server you can reach over SSH.

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