WP + Python or GCP??

  • Hello,

    I am interested in building a website for some predictive models I have. I have limited exposure to web dev, although I have some CS education and I’m working as a DS. Due to my inexperience in this field, I’m looking for a WP solution, but I have some questions.

    What I need is the website to have a homepage with a few tabs and register(subscribe)/login functionalities. My understanding is that these are typically easy to pull off with various WP plugins.

    Now, I have some Python code that includes web scrapers, pre-processing scripts, model training, evaluation and inference. For the moment, these reside locally as jupyter or python files. Regarding the website, I want for (paying) users to be able to access the models’ predictions and plot some graphs (in the homepage and in the private area). Is it possible to ‘combine’ my Python code for all these with WP?

    I’m in the process of moving all these scrips to GCP. Would that work complimentary to WP? As in, can I somehow make plots with data and read the predictions (i.e. a csv file) from google storage? Or does it need extra backend stuff?

    Accordingly, as I said I’m not experienced with web dev, but is putting everything on GCP a wrong step? As in, since I’ll have to pay for a server anyway, I could do everything there?

    Appreciate any help.
    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Moderator bcworkz

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    You don’t really need GCP, but it could be used as a resource if need be. Unless we’re talking about huge amounts of data and/or traffic, all you really need is a hosted webserver, which you need for a WP website anyway. Since WP is PHP based, ideally all server side code would be PHP as well. It helps when everything speaks the same language.

    It is possible for PHP to execute shell commands, allowing you to do anything you could do from the server’s terminal, including running python scripts. The problem is a lot of hosting plans block shell commands out of security concerns. Before committing to a particular host, ensure your account will be able to shell out. Perhaps a VPS would be more likely to allow shell commands.

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