Is there any good vps hosting? it probably be better if it is in
Europe for lower latency.
thx,
Uriel
I'm in St. Louis, where Slicehost is located, but they have a
ridiculous waiting list. So I can't even try them out.
I've been happy with Rimu, though.
doug.
i can recommend vpsland to anybody,even that the problem was mine they
tried everything to fix it,even changed my server to other network and
answer in a matter of minutes.
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts
and currently have site5.com and thinkhost.com at the top of my
list (in that order, as site5 is about $1/mo cheaper).
I really just want basic SSH access, Django (and static-files),
some DB (don't care whether PostgreSQL, MySQL, or even just
sqlite, as long as it works with Django) and IMAP/SMTP. Access
to svn/hg and rsync would be handy.
I don't need a full VPS. And don't expect high volumes of
traffic (mostly for personal development projects and for a
collaboration point with friends and family)
Does anyone on the list have positive or negative experiences
with either Site5.com or ThinkHost.com you'd be willing to share?
Thanks,
-tim
Right now I'm using www.grokthis.net with a VPS but they also have a
shared and advanced offerings too. I've been happy so far.
Good luck,
Chris
If you are looking to deploy a nice, low-traffic (below 25k per day)
site, I would probably recommend WebFaction. I was enamored by
SliceHost when I first signed up because you do get a nice, dedicated
256MB piece of RAM, but that goes to things like the MySQL daemon,
base OS, and the like as well as your Apache instances. You also then
have to be the person who worries about security issues and tuning and
stuff. If you're one person, a VPS probably isn't the best way to go
because you'll have to be both programmer and sysadmin.
WebFaction's shared hosting is a little more than shared hosting.
They provide you with your own Apache instance which is really nice.
This way, you can run Django under mod_python and have all the
goodness you'd want if you had set everything up yourself. They also
used to be Python-Hosting from back when Zope/Plone was Python on the
web. They know what they're doing. Going the WebFaction route means
that you don't have to worry about security issues on the server like
you would with a VPS, yet they still give you enough RAM on their
$7.50 to have your site run and run well.
DreamHost only supports FastCGI and I wouldn't recommend it as much as
the other two unless you want a really awesome email account with more
storage than you could ever use.
WebFaction just makes deployment easy (no admin headaches) while still
giving you all of the meaningful stuff (your own Apache, mod_python,
PostgreSQL and MySQL, etc.). But that's just my opinion.
> WebFaction just makes deployment easy (no admin headaches) while still
> giving you all of the meaningful stuff (your own Apache, mod_python,
> PostgreSQL and MySQL, etc.). But that's just my opinion.
a client of mine has taken a webfaction django account - and so far
everything is looking very good. Not in production yet, but i dont
thing i will have much problem. They have done everything very neatly.
--
regards
kg
http://lawgon.livejournal.com
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
It's been easy to get django rolling, since you get a CentOS installation (a
free clone of RedHat Enterprise). Yum is not installed by default, but a
google gives you the right rpm's to get it up. I'm also writing up a post for
my blog about this.
It's fairly expensive (I pay $50/month for a (dv) base), but the support is
awesome. I've been a pleased (mt) customer for years.
Still... Apache gives me headaches over and over again. Once, after adding a
virtual host, I got the same project displayed on all my domains/subdomains.
Never got to figure out what the problem was.
Chris Hoeppner
www.pixware.org
I'm also using EC2, but in a similar place as Frederic. There are a
lot of issues to work through, but they're actually very good issues
to address early on.
Michael
On 5/16/07, Frédéric Sidler <frederi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do use Amazon EC2 for our project and I plan to go very big
> http://media.djangobook.com/content/chapter21/scaling-5.png
>
> For the moment, i have everything running on one instance
> http://media.djangobook.com/content/chapter21/scaling-1.png
>
> But that is just the start, the problems are
>
> host negociation because of dynamic IP (intern & extern)
> non persistent data in case of instance failure
> dynamic load of instance in case of charge (see http://weoceo.weogeo.com). I
> have access to their system.I'm happy for now. I will keep you informed.