Hosting for Django sites

[django_jedi]

Hi Folks,

I'm wondering what people would recommend for hosting Django sites?
I've read the blog posts; I'm wondering what the latest word on the
street would be.  We're talking about hosting multiple Django/Satchmo
installs, possibly w/dedicated/managed servers.

Among the leading contenders so far:

- Webfaction
- Media Temple
- Rackspace Cloud/Slicehost

Thoughts?

TIA.

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Ray Cote]

We have experience with Webfaction, Slicehost, and Linode. 
Webfaction has excellent Django support, ability to generate basic app layouts, 
etc. 
Shell access (which is always important to us). 

Slicehost and Linode are excellent Django-serving platforms, but then again 
they are excellent general serving platforms. You're on your own with 
install/configuration. But you get more fine-tuned control than with 
WebFaction. 

--Ray

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Sent: Saturday, April 3, 2010 10:39:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Hosting for Django sites

Hi Folks,

I'm wondering what people would recommend for hosting Django sites?
I've read the blog posts; I'm wondering what the latest word on the
street would be.  We're talking about hosting multiple Django/Satchmo
installs, possibly w/dedicated/managed servers.

Among the leading contenders so far:

- Webfaction
- Media Temple
- Rackspace Cloud/Slicehost

Thoughts?

TIA.

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Tim Shaffer]

+1 for Webfaction

Their hosting plans are great, and the customer service is absolutely
amazing. I'm just on a shared plan, but usually get a response to
tickets within an hour or so. Top notch.

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Anand Agarwal]

We have been Rackspace for our product. We are very satisfied with their
service.
Customer support is fabulous.

BootStrapToday 
www.bootstraptoday.com

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:09 PM, django_jedi  wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm wondering what people would recommend for hosting Django sites?
> I've read the blog posts; I'm wondering what the latest word on the
> street would be.  We're talking about hosting multiple Django/Satchmo
> installs, possibly w/dedicated/managed servers.
>
> Among the leading contenders so far:
>
> - Webfaction
> - Media Temple
> - Rackspace Cloud/Slicehost
>
> Thoughts?
>
> TIA.
>
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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Shawn Milochik]

+1 for Webfaction also. 

I've only had to use customer service once and they were unhelpful, but the way 
the hosting site is set up make it trivial to create new Django apps, 
subdomains, and static sites for media URLs.
For slightly less than I used to pay for fairly simplistic hosting that 
couldn't do much more than run PHP I'm getting everything I need.

Shawn


On Apr 3, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Tim Shaffer wrote:

> +1 for Webfaction
> 
> Their hosting plans are great, and the customer service is absolutely
> amazing. I'm just on a shared plan, but usually get a response to
> tickets within an hour or so. Top notch.
> 
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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[django_jedi]

Thanks guys.  Very helpful.  Confirming my research.  We've been using
Webfaction for a couple of sites to test drive them, and they come
through w/flying colors.

The only thing I'd like to see from them is 24/7 phone support (hey,
I'm not asking for much, am I? ;-)

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[shofty]

+1 for webfaction.

this is a +1 from a proper noob. they were very helpful to me when i
was struggling my way through my first django site, so if you're on a
real steep learning curve, they will help you out.

im not so sure for the 24/7 phone support, i raised an issue with them
on twitter once and they sorted it there and then. plus im uk based so
phone wouldn't really help.

Matt

On Apr 3, 9:47 pm, django_jedi  wrote:
> Thanks guys.  Very helpful.  Confirming my research.  We've been using
> Webfaction for a couple of sites to test drive them, and they come
> through w/flying colors.
>
> The only thing I'd like to see from them is 24/7 phone support (hey,
> I'm not asking for much, am I? ;-)

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Justin Myers]

I'm a fan of Webfaction's shared plans, and I've used them for three
or four projects now. I've had no problems with their support, and
they even did a pretty good job keeping everyone informed when they
were affected by that big explosion at The Planet's datacenter a
couple of years ago (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?
sid=08/06/01/1715247). That said, even though their servers are
physically in the US, my credit card bill shows that they're in the
UK--so I end up with the fun foreign transaction surcharge every time
Webfaction bills me.

I've also spent the last few months on a Rackspace Cloud server for a
project, and I've got no complaints. Setting it up and getting
everything configured were more involved, of course, but that's to be
expected (as Ray said).

As Shawn mentioned earlier, Webfaction's control panel makes it easy
to set up subdomains and media URLs (so much easier to me than mucking
around in httpd.conf and the like), and I like the backup features in
Rackspace's control panel. Overall, I'd say you can't go wrong with
either, honestly.

HTH,
Justin

On Apr 3, 5:35 pm, shofty  wrote:
> +1 for webfaction.
>
> this is a +1 from a proper noob. they were very helpful to me when i
> was struggling my way through my first django site, so if you're on a
> real steep learning curve, they will help you out.
>
> im not so sure for the 24/7 phone support, i raised an issue with them
> on twitter once and they sorted it there and then. plus im uk based so
> phone wouldn't really help.
>
> Matt
>
> On Apr 3, 9:47 pm, django_jedi  wrote:
>
> > Thanks guys.  Very helpful.  Confirming my research.  We've been using
> > Webfaction for a couple of sites to test drive them, and they come
> > through w/flying colors.
>
> > The only thing I'd like to see from them is 24/7 phone support (hey,
> > I'm not asking for much, am I? ;-)

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Nick Lacey]

Matt wrote:

>  plus im uk based so  phone wouldn't really help.

Speaking of being UK based .. for the project all I'm working on,
*all* the users will be in the UK, so I'm not sure about performance
issues caused by servers in the US.

Do I need to worry about the host not being based in Europe? If so,
could anyone recommend a Europe based host?

Many thanks,

Nick

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Michael]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Nick Lacey  wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>
>>  plus im uk based so  phone wouldn't really help.
>
> Speaking of being UK based .. for the project all I'm working on,
> *all* the users will be in the UK, so I'm not sure about performance
> issues caused by servers in the US.
>
> Do I need to worry about the host not being based in Europe? If so,
> could anyone recommend a Europe based host?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Nick
>
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http://djangodomain.com has hosting in Europe.


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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Vasil Vangelovski]

I've nothing but positive impressions from Slicehost so far.

- All their VPS plans (slices) work pretty fast and each is mostly
limited by the amount of memory you need and are prepared to pay for.
- Resizing a slice (changing a plan) is painless and fast.
- You are the master of your own slice, no stupid management panels,
you choose what you want to install there from the ground up.
- They offer pretty up to date linux distros to choose from.



On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:39 PM, django_jedi  wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm wondering what people would recommend for hosting Django sites?
> I've read the blog posts; I'm wondering what the latest word on the
> street would be.  We're talking about hosting multiple Django/Satchmo
> installs, possibly w/dedicated/managed servers.
>
> Among the leading contenders so far:
>
> - Webfaction
> - Media Temple
> - Rackspace Cloud/Slicehost
>
> Thoughts?
>
> TIA.
>
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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[JeffH]

Valcato.com offers shared and dedicated hosting, including good Django
support. I've got two Django sites with them now. Home office is in
UK. --Jeff

On Apr 4, 8:33 pm, Nick Lacey  wrote:
> Matt wrote:
> >  plus im uk based so  phone wouldn't really help.
>
> Speaking of being UK based .. for the project all I'm working on,
> *all* the users will be in the UK, so I'm not sure about performance
> issues caused by servers in the US.
>
> Do I need to worry about the host not being based in Europe? If so,
> could anyone recommend a Europe based host?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Nick

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[django_jedi]

Thanks to all!  Very helpful.

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Re: Hosting for Django sites

[Subramanyam]

Hi

Did you use memcache in deployment in the shared plans

Regards
Subramanyam


On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Justin Myers  wrote:

> I'm a fan of Webfaction's shared plans, and I've used them for three
> or four projects now. I've had no problems with their support, and
> they even did a pretty good job keeping everyone informed when they
> were affected by that big explosion at The Planet's datacenter a
> couple of years ago (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?
> sid=08/06/01/1715247). That said, even though their servers are
> physically in the US, my credit card bill shows that they're in the
> UK--so I end up with the fun foreign transaction surcharge every time
> Webfaction bills me.
>
> I've also spent the last few months on a Rackspace Cloud server for a
> project, and I've got no complaints. Setting it up and getting
> everything configured were more involved, of course, but that's to be
> expected (as Ray said).
>
> As Shawn mentioned earlier, Webfaction's control panel makes it easy
> to set up subdomains and media URLs (so much easier to me than mucking
> around in httpd.conf and the like), and I like the backup features in
> Rackspace's control panel. Overall, I'd say you can't go wrong with
> either, honestly.
>
> HTH,
> Justin
>
> On Apr 3, 5:35 pm, shofty  wrote:
> > +1 for webfaction.
> >
> > this is a +1 from a proper noob. they were very helpful to me when i
> > was struggling my way through my first django site, so if you're on a
> > real steep learning curve, they will help you out.
> >
> > im not so sure for the 24/7 phone support, i raised an issue with them
> > on twitter once and they sorted it there and then. plus im uk based so
> > phone wouldn't really help.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On Apr 3, 9:47 pm, django_jedi  wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks guys.  Very helpful.  Confirming my research.  We've been using
> > > Webfaction for a couple of sites to test drive them, and they come
> > > through w/flying colors.
> >
> > > The only thing I'd like to see from them is 24/7 phone support (hey,
> > > I'm not asking for much, am I? ;-)
>
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