What is the best server for Django

[Chen Xu]

I am thinking to buy a server, and integrated with Django environment. So could anyone please give me some suggestions, which server is the best for this, amazon ec2 or?

Thanks very much
Best regards

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[Norberto Leite]

What you need is a the proper server for your application needs.If you are looking for managed hosting there are plenty of options to do this, a simple google query will give a lifetime of options. 

Now if you want to manage your own server instance and you need to define which type of machine you are looking for. Django/Python will run in the most common OS's,the question is which applies the best to your needs. 

In my case I'm using a linode VPS (Linode 512) which pretty much handles all my server needs for the time being. 

If you are looking for a more extensible / elastic platform that enables you to scale up or down in a very fashionable way I recommend the using an EC2 instance.

Pretty straightforward way getting started and a lot of already available instance images tailored for django environments.  

But there are tons of different hosting / housing / VPS solutions tailored for django. 

For the more purists, the recommendation will be google web apps wich as plenty of support  and helps paying Guido salary :)

It's all about having a clear view of what you need and how much you are willing to pay. 

N.

 

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[Norberto Leite]

PS - You are not buying a server on EC2, google apps engine or any VPS provider, you are renting!

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[william ratcliff]

For hosted, I rather like webfaction.

[Bruce Dou]

Linode or EC2.

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[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

I guess it all depends on what one's needs are. For Django, I only have WebFaction experience and I second William Ratcliff on that note. They have been brilliant, offering a very user-friendly setup process as well as great turnaround times on support. They also

- stay very current on software updates, offering new versions barely days after they are released.
- allow the installation and use of custom modules even with their shared hosting plans.

N.B: - I am neither affiliate nor employee of WebFaction, and I get nothing for this plug :)

Regards,
Sithembewena Lloyd Dube

[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

P.S: by "custom modules", I really meant long-running processes. They also limit the number of users allocated per shared machine to maintain decent performance.

[James Abel]

+1 webfaction

[Andy]

It really depends on your needs.

If you are also running a DB on the server and have significant
traffic, virtual servers such as EC2 or Linode might not work well
because they tend to have poor IO performance.

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:47 +0200, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote:
> I guess it all depends on what one's needs are. For Django, I only
> have
> WebFaction experience and I second William Ratcliff on that note. They
> have
> been brilliant, offering a very user-friendly setup process as well as
> great
> turnaround times on support. They also

+1 for webfaction - they rock. If you need a vps, another good choice is
Gandi. They are rock solid, but their ui is kinda weird. Even after 3
years I spend a good amount of time each month trying to figure out how
to make my monthly payment ;-)
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[Huy Ton That]

+1 for Rackspace.

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[Tom Christie]

And again, +1 webfaction, they really do rock.

[Eugene MechanisM]

I've server (4x 2.66+ GHz, 8GB RAM, 2TB HDD, Debian 6) at http://ovh.co.uk
they're offers really great up-time/performance/service/broadband
speed.
I'm serving radio stations streams, several django sites(of coz nginx-
varnish-uwsgi)..

[octopusgrabbus]

Server or Hosted Service? I was confused by the question.

We host our own applications (at least for now).

For server hardware, we use IBM e-server, non-virtual at the moment.

For OS software, Red Hat Enterprise EL WS 5 in production. Eventually,
will be rebuilt using CentOS.

For development Ubuntu desktop 10.04 with server components
installed.

I would recommend 32-bit OS for now. I've suffered through a lot of
cockpit error with 64-bit. The mod_wsgi list was quite helpful
regarding that.

cmn

On Mar 10, 9:00 am, Eugene MechanisM <eugene.mechan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've server (4x 2.66+ GHz, 8GB RAM, 2TB HDD, Debian 6) athttp://ovh.co.uk

[Tiago Almeida]

I've been using a shared hosting at djangohosting.ch and I am happy.
Lowest plans start at 4€/month, you only have to pay 3 months in
advance. Servers physically in europe (might be important due to
response times) and very simple web based installer for django apps.

Good luck.

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Tiago Almeida <tiago.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been using a shared hosting at djangohosting.ch and I am happy.
Lowest plans start at 4€/month, you only have to pay 3 months in
advance. Servers physically in europe (might be important due to
response times) and very simple web based installer for django apps.

How are these guys w.r.t webfaction - can someone who has used webfaction comment on these guys?
Webfaction's support simple rocks!
But, djangohosting.ch is almost 50% cheaper than webfaction! so was wondering whether i should make a move!

-V

[shofty]

i tried djangohosting.ch after webfaction. webfaction have better support response times which as a noob i needed. wf have some incredibly knowledgable staff on their support team. so it depends what you want. dh have a great installer, so long as you know what you're doing they're a good choice. first installation might not be too easy but after that...

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

you do not really need to use their installer. I have set up some sites
there and I just do the standard virtualenv stuff - feels like I am on
my laptop. The do not give root access, but one gets ones own
configurable instance of apache - what more do you want?

[andreap]

Im using webfaction and its the best!


I have 2 question,

1 How can I make an online backup with webfaction?

2 I start to have new customers and I need a hosting to resell to my
customers. Can I use webfaction but actually I can only buy new ram
for my host....can I buy one hosting per customer?

thx
Andrea

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[Nate Aune]

I can't help you with your WebFaction questions, but I'd like to hear more about your needs for reselling Django hosting for your customers. Do you expect that you will give your customers access to their own hosting account, or will you manage this for them and just pass on the costs to them?

Nate

[andreap]

hi Nate,

i want to give some services to my customers.
I will sell a cms and my Suite(crm and more...)
my customers can't see the code.

what do you think about this choise ?
Andrea