Dreamhost is $10.95/month if you pay monthly (+ $49.95 setup fee), so you should probably use that figure when comparing to other companies monthly rates...
My main problem is memory use (rather than bandwidth or disk space) - do you know how much memory you can use on that plan? Richard On Sep 29, 11:01 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > Webfaction is 9.50/month and you only get 10GB disk and 600GB transfer. > > Dreamhost is 8.95/month and you get unlimited web disk and ulimited > transfer. Web disk means, you get unlimited as long as its being used for a > website, you can't use the space for your own personal backup! > > If you want your own personal backup, dreamhost actually gives you a FREE 50 > gb backup account, on a subdomain, that can only be used for SFTP. And you > can put whatever you want on there, over 50GB is only 5 cents a gb > afterwords. > > Honestly though, for shared hosting, dreamhost is your best bet. But if you > needed more than shared hosting, go with something like mediatemple.net. > > -Thadeus > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Richard <richar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Other hosts, such as webfaction, and mediatemple.net are good, but > > because of the price, I wouldn't go with them until you know for sure thats > > what your app needs. > > > are you sure? Dreamhost is $8.95/month, and Webfaction is $8.50/month > > on a year plan or $5.50/month for long term. > > > On Sep 29, 7:58 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > > > If you don't currently have your own hosting, I would highly recommend > > > Dreamhost if your are just starting out with hosting. > > > > Other hosts, such as webfaction, and mediatemple.net are good, but > > because > > > of the price, I wouldn't go with them until you know for sure thats what > > > your app needs. > > > > Dreamhost is cheap, and their quality of service is awesome, I have never > > > had my site go down, it is rock solid, and their support techs will email > > me > > > back even at like 4AM in the morning! That and having ssh, ulimited > > > subdomains, being able to install anything... Well its "almost" like > > having > > > a VPS for the cost of shared hosting :) > > > > Plus dreamhost now supports WSGI, so using web2py is fast (WSGI is much > > > faster than fcgi since WSGI uses mod_passenger to hook into apache) > > > > If your interested in going with dreamhost, I don't mind helping you get > > > started getting web2py set up, and if you use my referral code :P > > > > -Thadeus > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Chris S <sanders.ch...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Would this be the same for FastCGI? Simply rename and add a > > > > handler? > > > > I've been trying GAE and would really like to try out a shared host > > > > with FastCGI instead. The GAE's lack of 'belongs in' type command is > > > > killing me. > > > > > On Sep 28, 4:14 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > > > > > Quite easily actually, some took me about 5 seconds on google. > > > > > >http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html#cgi > > > > > > Bascially, you either rename cgihandler.py with a .cgi extension, > > and/or > > > > > simlink it to a .cgi file. > > > > > > Hope that helps, I would suggest maybe fastcgi if you have it? > > > > > > I currently use the shared hosting on dreamhost, and use their WSGI > > for > > > > my > > > > > web2py instance, runs great! > > > > > > -Thadeus > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:07 PM, andreas <ord...@nocompromise.ws> > > wrote: > > > > > > h directory should the domain point? > > > > > > Do I have to remove or modify the cgihandler.py file? > > > > > > Do I have to set up a .htaccess file and what to write insi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
