I'm a bit confused about how I am supposed to get my domain from my app. After doing research, I decided to host the app using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. I realized that I cannot register my domain name for the app using Amazon.
The most common domain registration site I have heard of is godaddy which does not support Django. I heard that WebFaction supports Django, so I was planning on going with WebFaction.
But this is where I got confused.
Note: I am well aware that I can make the domain name of the app to point to AWS servers (as ex[;ained here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/getting-started-configure-route53.html).
When I look at the pricing for WebFaction, it talks about server hardware and seems to talk about the same stuff AWS has to offer. For example, over here: webfaction.com/features it says the OS is Centos but AWS offers Ubuntu (which is what I want to use). WebFaction offers 512MB of memory while AWS S3 offers 5GB. So
1) if I get my domain name on WebFaction, do both memories combine and I have 5GB + 512MB?
2) Where would I be putting up my source code? on WebFaction or on AWS?
3) Since WebFaction offers only 512MB of memory but my AWS server will offer 5GB, will my domain go down once I go over 512MB since WebFaction only supports that much?
You're confused about different services you need. DNS and hosting are totally independent, but many providers offer both as a package.
You could register a domain with some other provider and then use Amazon's Route 53 to host the DNS for the domain you registered with some external provider to point it to your EC2 instance.
No, the memory does not combine. You can't host it in two places simultaneously (at least not like that).
If AWS is what you've decided on, just stick with that.
Again, you can't host it in multiple places and just combine them like that.