In another thread many people (including myself) have recommended Webfaction. It's the same sort of price level as Dreamhost, but much more reliable for Django hosting. In fact they set everything up for you, all you need to do is add your app. -- DR.
On 22 Nov, 10:08, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks! > > slicehost sounds nice too. it just is a bit expensive for what i do > (even if it is cheap compared to similar offers). i find virtual > private servers very interesting and i hope such webhosting will > become cheaper once more extreme multicore processors (8 or 16 > cores,...) come out. > > On Nov 21, 10:55 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > dreamhost.com looks quite interesting though. how can they offer 500gb > > > for that price? are they serious and reliable? do they allow > > > subleasing of webspace? > > > I don't recommend Dreamhost as a host for Django applications. They > > are 'serious' and their tech support is usually very helpful, but it > > is an undesirable situation for a couple of reasons. First, they can > > offer their amazing deals by overselling their resources. Second, it > > is shared hosting so the reliability and performance of your machine > > will depend on the other accounts hosted on the same machine, which > > you cannot predict. In that same vein, you simple don't have much > > control of your situation. > > > For example you might want to setup Memcached. Well... you can't. Or > > you might want to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL... and you can't. > > And you might want to restart Apache... and... you can't. All these > > things are relatively minor, but combined they make for a situation > > that is probably untenable for an important project. > > > There is a newish offer by Dreamhost called DreamHost PS which allows > > you to get guaranteed memory, etc, on the machines you are running on. > > This is something of a step in the right direction, but you're still > > going to be suffering from machines with unpredictable loads from > > other individuals, and the people who I have known who use DreamHost > > PS have not been resoundingly happy. > > > Personally I have had a very pleasant experience using Django on > > Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com). Essentially you get a virtual > > machine to do whatever you want with, along with no overselling to get > > performance and reliability more predictable. I wrote a howto on > > getting started with Django on Slicehost (http://www.lethain.com/entry/ > > 2007/jul/17/dreamier-dream-server-nginx/), if you go that route. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
