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urielka

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May 15, 2007, 11:12:24 AM5/15/07
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I am running two django sites with vpsland(good support) for the last
7 days, but since i having problems with their ssh(running really
slow) i thinking about switching to other host.

Is there any good vps hosting? it probably be better if it is in
Europe for lower latency.

thx,
Uriel

david

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May 15, 2007, 11:31:06 AM5/15/07
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It's not in Europe, but I've been using RimuHosting since December or so, and they've been great. The connection is fast, downtime is minimal, and their responses to support questions are always prompt.

Adam Fast

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May 15, 2007, 11:49:00 AM5/15/07
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I've been pleased with SliceHost.

Doug Van Horn

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May 15, 2007, 1:21:24 PM5/15/07
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I use rimuhosting.com. I'm pretty sure they have a Data Center in
London, so that might be the right up your alley.

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.

urielka

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May 15, 2007, 2:46:54 PM5/15/07
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yeha i really liked SliceHost they have the best prices but the
waiting list is more than ridiculous,if they have such a big waiting
list i would expect from them to make their data center bigger.
i am staying right now with vpsland,they are really great and the ssh
turn out to be a problem with my isp,which still isn`t fixed but using
other connection i get really fast access.

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.

Brian Luft

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May 15, 2007, 3:25:22 PM5/15/07
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I've been using WebFaction and have been happy with it so far. The
plan I'm using is actually a shared hosting plan. While you do share
an OS instance with others, you still get shell access. They have a
slick control panel that makes it easy to drop in various frameworks
and applications (eg. Django, Rails, Wordpress, SVN, Trac...). If you
need full control over your environment it probably won't be for you.
I like focusing on actual application development so I think they
provide an excellent playground if you just want to get something up
and running w/o worrying about configuring all the usual services.

Tim Chase

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May 15, 2007, 4:31:30 PM5/15/07
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As folks are giving their opinions regarding Django-hosting, I'm
in the market for some fairly inexpensive hosting service.
Django-friendliness is a big plus. I spent a weekend recently
doing a bit of research on the providers listed at

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

Chris Moffitt

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May 15, 2007, 9:09:45 PM5/15/07
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>
> Does anyone on the list have positive or negative experiences
> with either Site5.com or ThinkHost.com you'd be willing to share?
>
I have used Thinkhost and actually did the write-up on the Django site
of how to setup thinkhost with Django. As a provider, Thinkhost is just
fine but I wouldn't recommend it for use with Django. I had a real hard
time figuring out how to restart the fcgi processes after making
changes. Nothing I tried seemed to have any affect. I'd have to make a
change then wait 30 minutes or so for the new processes to spawn - a
real pain when developing.

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

scadink

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May 15, 2007, 9:11:10 PM5/15/07
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I have three web hosts at the moment: SliceHost, WebFaction and
DreamHost.

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.

John M

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May 15, 2007, 9:17:42 PM5/15/07
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Im really suprised no one has tried Amazon's EC infrastructure, it's
pretty sweet, for production I would think!

Kenneth Gonsalves

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May 15, 2007, 9:32:49 PM5/15/07
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On 16-May-07, at 6:41 AM, scadink wrote:

> 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
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Christian M Hoeppner

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May 16, 2007, 6:06:28 AM5/16/07
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I'm using a dedicated virtual at mediatemple. They're working on
Django-containers, which would be a sweet feature if the ETA was anywhen
soon.

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

Frédéric Sidler

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May 16, 2007, 3:24:16 PM5/16/07
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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. This is the future of web hosting. You pay as you use/earn.

2007/5/16, John M <retire...@gmail.com>:

Michael Trier

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May 16, 2007, 3:28:50 PM5/16/07
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I love Rimuhosting. They've been great.

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.

Frédéric Sidler

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May 16, 2007, 3:41:49 PM5/16/07
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The main difference between traditionnal VPS hosting and Amazon EC2 hosting is that EC2 is hourly based. If you can manage to load instance based on the charge, you have full control on your cost. I can imagine that is not accurate for small hosting plan. But I follow what telco, for example,  are testing on EC2. Usually their hosting system is designed for picks and sleep for the rest of the year. See what lignup did with EC2 for example and if it works for VoIP (QoS) I think it can be reliable for web hosting ;-)
http://www.google.ch/search?hl=fr&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Afr%3Aofficial&hs=B8O&q=lignup+amazon+ec2&btnG=Rechercher&meta=

2007/5/16, Michael Trier <mtr...@gmail.com>:
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