Hi Andy, I do not use a different server for media yet but it is in project. Maybe I could help:
> 2. Do you typically use a different hosting company for the media > server than you do for the django server? If so, can you suggest any > names? There is the Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloudfiles services. With then, you don't buy a space demand, you pay for disk space and bandwith usage, in my case, they will be cheaper than an another vps for media server. I don't know Amazon S3 very well but I know Rackspace Cloudfiles, the problem is that I can't have a path like this: /media/main/folder1/folder2/file.jpg I need something like this: http://mediax.server.com/group1/file1.jpg If you are starting your project, it could be easier to align. There is cases of django and Amazon S3 on google and the Rackspace Cloudfiles has a python lib too. > 3. (I just thought of this) Or do you just literally mean a different > server, as in the software. Meaning use the same hardware server but > use for example lighttpd for serving media and apache wsgi for serving > django. I use nginx in front of apache, if it is a media path, nginx takes care of it without talk to apache. The apache server is used only for django paths. This is better than nothing but isn't the best choice. If i hit a site with a separated media server, the page loads quickly because the page and his media files load at the same time. There are hardware gains too. I hope I could help. Best regards. -- Michel Sabchuk http://turbosys.com.br/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
