which webhost

[sweetbits]

hi all,

Have been playing w/ Mezzanine locally, under Apache though (and really enjoying it: i could never really
love Wordpress) and i may have secured my first tiny little Mezzanine website gig so i need to choose a webhost.

What webhost are you-all liking for Mezzanine / Django ?
I've heard Webfaction and Linode mentioned.
I currently use Hostgator, but you can't get Django w/ basic hosting, in theory.

Would love to hear about what webhosts are working for you ; costs ; and if
anyone is deploying Mezz. on Hostgator.

thx, chris.

[Ahmad Khayyat]

Django/Mezzanine works fine on HostGator using fastcgi.

It may not be the best host for Django, but it works. I have a development site running there on the most basic plan.

No production sites yet though, so can't comment on robustness.

[Ken Bolton]

Mezzanine is Django. Search for django hosting best practices.

I use AWS. Heroku works fine. Appsembler has hosting specifically for Mezzanine. Rackspace, nee slicehost, is good. Steer clear of shared hosting! There lies madness.

Mezzanine's fabfile deploys cleanly to every Debian-like GNU/Linux I have tried. Other platforms and configurations (apache, mysql, etc vs the stock nginx, postgres stack) definitely work, but will require more manual effort and brings the frustration that comes from non-automated solutions.

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[Tom Brander]

Not withstanding the shared hosting warning I have been using Webfaction for years and at the basic plan of $9 mo you get a lot and they are pretty dedicated Python people.. (used to be Python hosting)

For a step up, I am using Gondor.io (run by aseveral Django core developers) for a commercial site that I hope will grow,, it is quite turn key (runs on Rackspace) starting at $20/month makes hosting and deployment a breeze... check the site..

[sweetbits]

thanks all, quite a spectrum.
shall digest this and report back.

I'll probably start small and see if Hostgator shared hosting Django/mezz can
work for small sites.

[sweetbits]

On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:14:16 UTC-6, Tom Brander wrote:

Not withstanding the shared hosting warning I have been using Webfaction for years and at the basic plan of $9 mo you get a lot and they are pretty dedicated Python people.. (used to be Python hosting)

reporting back ...
ended up going with (or starting with) WebFaction, Tom.
Had to start w/ shared hosting ...
Very quickly i exploded over the 256MB limit as the default apache settings were spawning
5 processes, each about 80MB. Have no idea why my Mezzanine wants that much RAM per webpage hit.
Anyway i reduced the Apache 5 to 2, and each one is at 36MB, so i can defer investigating how they
got to 80 MB. Perhaps it's a caching issue.

Encountered various other issues (MysqlDB-python would not install in a virtual environment ;
idiomatic static file handling: idiomatic for me anyway ; webfaction support has a different flow
that what i had previously experienced: both empowering and overwhelming ;
the whole website/domain/app paradigm for a webhost was new ; and more)
All in all, it was not trivial, but it feels good to have a Mezzanine site up, that isn't on my home server.

thanks all, chris.

[Tom Brander]

Thanks for the report, glad it got sorted out.