#🔒 How do i host a program somewhere

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odd olive
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I have a python program that consists of a text boxt and some printed output. I want to host this somewhere (like github pages) where you can go to the pages website and enter text/get responses. How would I do this?

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south yacht
odd olive
south yacht
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You need to render and take input from a webpage, i.e. through a HTML template.

south yacht
wraith vine
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GitHub pages won't work for this either, GitHub pages only deals with static pages, if you want to use python then you need a backend

south yacht
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Assuming that this little program doesn't have anything extensive in the backend, it can be frozen to HTML and Javascript so it can run on Github Pages

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!pip Frozen-Flask but still have to import it to Flask first

dense graniteBOT
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Frozen-Flask v1.0.2

Freezes a Flask application into a set of static files.

Released on <t:1707489133:D>.

odd olive
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and wdym by import to flask

south yacht
south yacht
# odd olive and wdym by import to flask

!pip flask is a web app. You have to import your script into the views of Flask so it works as a web app. Then freeze your Flask app with Frozen-Flask so that it works statically for serverless service like Github Pages/Vercel/Netlify etc

dense graniteBOT
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Flask v3.0.3

A simple framework for building complex web applications.

Released on <t:1712517971:D>.

odd olive
south yacht
# odd olive

Yeah that's not something Github Pages can help

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Or any serverless static service

odd olive
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so whats the alternative

south yacht
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You'll have to rent a VPS at least and host your service there

odd olive
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so I can use like google cloud or something?

south yacht
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Yes

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AWS/GCP/Azure/Tencent/IBM/etc

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Lots of cloud services

odd olive
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is it usually expensive?

south yacht
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You can start really cheap. The cheapest at DigitalOcean is $4 per month

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Of course, you get what you paid for. Low specs

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But its decent for the price

odd olive
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so with flask, will my program run exactly the same? it currently gets data from github and stores user entries via an api to like jsonbin

south yacht
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Flask just turns your terminal/cli/text-based program into a web app

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So its a cosmetic upgrade

odd olive
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and can I do this from google collab?

south yacht
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Google Collab is different

odd olive
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not like host

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but can I build the flask stuff there

south yacht
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You can do this in google collab for sure but not sure about what you're doing

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I know Google Collab can do AI code stuff but not beyond that

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Its just an online Jupyter notebook

odd olive
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yea thats what I mean

south yacht
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And no, you can't build Flask stuff in Google Collab

odd olive
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why not

south yacht
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Because it has its own UI

odd olive
south yacht
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If you're hosting on a VPS, then do everything in your VPS

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Including your own Jupyter notebook

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Don't need Google Colab and its throttled GPU

odd olive
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ok thank you!

south yacht
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idk if you need more GPU?

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I'm sure you can use other cloud hosted GPU service

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