I use Turbogears on my shared hosting for one-off applications, but I don’t need these applications active all the time.
Is there a way to start the service when I request it, and then kill the process when it’s idle?
For example, Turbogears will have a persistent process: “paster serve production.ini” that I would like killed if there hasn’t been any activity for a while.
On the flipside, if the process is killed, I want it to start up again when someone attempts to access the port.
How can I accomplish this on shared hosting?
You can try using passenger. Eventhough it is originally for rails, but I have found many people successfully deployed django with passenger. I think it will work with turbogears as well. Good luck.