Django CMS on MassiveGRID PaaS
django CMS is an open-source content management system built on the Django web framework, favoured by teams that want a Python code base, front-end editing and the freedom to embed their own Django applications inside a CMS. The MassiveGRID PaaS package deploys django CMS with a Python application server and database in one click.
Both buttons open the MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard with Django CMS pre-selected. The trial needs no credit card.
Django CMS Package Facts
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Package | Django CMS |
| Type | Application (installs a complete environment) |
| Category | Websites & CMS |
| Software vendor / project | django CMS Association |
| Licence | BSD 3-Clause (open source) |
| Runtime / stack | Python application server (Django), relational database |
| Regions | New York, London, Frankfurt, Singapore |
| Billing | Pay-per-use from $2.46/month ($0.003372/hour), no licence fee |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card |
| Uptime SLA | 100% |
What is Django CMS?
django CMS has been developed since 2007 and is used by organisations such as National Geographic and L'Oréal. It combines a page tree with drag-and-drop placeholders where editors insert plugins: text, images, forms, or any custom component a developer builds as a normal Django app. Because it is plain Django, authentication, ORM models and REST APIs all work the way Python developers expect.
Hosting a Django project properly means a WSGI or ASGI server, a database, static-file handling and a process manager. The marketplace package provisions those pieces on MassiveGRID PaaS and installs django CMS on top, leaving you with a Git-deployable Python environment that scales vertically on demand.
What the Django CMS Package Deploys
Marketplace packages are not bare container images. One click provisions a complete, production-shaped environment on MassiveGRID infrastructure.
- Python application server: A Python container with Django and django CMS installed and served through a production WSGI server.
- Relational database: A linked database container (PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB) configured in the Django settings.
- Static and media storage: Persistent storage for uploads and collected static files, with platform snapshots.
- Built-in domain and SSL: Immediate HTTPS on a platform subdomain, with your own domain via Let's Encrypt.
Why Teams Choose Django CMS
Front-end editing
Editors change content directly on the page, with structure and content modes, versioning and publishing workflows.
Pure Django
Extend the CMS with regular Django apps, models and views. No proprietary templating or plugin API to learn.
Multilingual and multi-site
Per-language page trees and fallbacks, plus Django's sites framework for running several domains.
Git-based deployment
Push code with the Git-Push-Deploy add-on and let the platform install requirements and restart the server.
How to Install Django CMS on MassiveGRID PaaS
Installing the package takes three steps and a few minutes of waiting. No servers to provision, no configuration files to edit.
Open the installer
Click Install with free trial or Install to my account. The MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard opens with the Django CMS package pre-selected, so nothing has to be copied or pasted.
Sign up or sign in
New to the platform? Sign up for the free 14-day trial, which needs no credit card. Existing customers sign in with their usual dashboard credentials.
Choose region and deploy
Name the environment, pick New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, and confirm. The platform builds every Django CMS node, wires them together and hands you the live URL and credentials.
Who Runs Django CMS on PaaS
Python-first development teams
Agencies and product teams that want CMS pages and custom Django applications in one code base.
Corporate and brand sites
Marketing sites with structured content, multilingual editing and strict design systems.
Web applications with CMS pages
SaaS products that need marketing pages, documentation and a blog alongside the application.
Why Run Django CMS on MassiveGRID PaaS
Built for uptime. Django CMS runs on MassiveGRID's high-availability platform, where every environment is covered by a 100% uptime SLA. Nodes live on redundant hosts, storage is replicated, and failed containers are restarted or migrated automatically.
Pay for what you use. Billing is hourly and per cloudlet (128 MiB RAM plus 400 MHz CPU). Vertical auto-scaling adds and removes cloudlets as load changes, so a quiet Django CMS environment costs a few dollars a month and a busy one grows without a migration. Full details are on the PaaS page.
Your choice of jurisdiction. Deploy in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore and keep data inside the region your users or regulators require. MassiveGRID is ISO 9001 certified and GDPR compliant, and has run hosting infrastructure since 2003.
No lock-in. The package is a standard Jelastic Packaging Standard (JPS) manifest. You keep root-level access to the containers, can export the manifest, and can move the workload to any other Jelastic-compatible platform or to your own servers at any time.
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