For the beginners, perhaps the new kind of hosting is something specifically taylored for django - ep.io, djangozoom.com and maybe some other similar services. Not sure if they are cheaper - take a look at their pricing plans, but they promise simpler deployments, otherwise it's the same as last year. There are a bunch of sites out there reviewing traditional hosting providers supporting django. Personally I'd go for an inexpensive vps, because you will have root access and will not have to unload a lot of money.
Evgeny ( 2011-09-06 20:27:52 -0500 )editI recently went through the troubles of setting up askbot on amazon beanstalk and after a few days really got it working (S3 for statics and SES for email included). I documented it here, if you want to take a look: https://gist.github.com/ligthyear/5188195#file-askbot-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk-md
lightyear ( 2013-03-18 11:19:17 -0500 )edit