Then perhaps the comparison should be made not what you get on the basic plan, but what you get for the price.
You get a whole lot more for your money with dreamhost than with webfaction. Fair use is probably going to be no more than users/ram plus a little extra (since not everybody needs that much ram) My server has 4G ram, and approx 20 users (they had a bug in the update the other day that allowed you to view number of users in top) so 4000/20 = 200RAM a person, they probably won't bother you unless your using more than that ammount. That being said, i'm sure some of their servers have more or less. I am on a beta server, so that is not a fair comparison. Of course, plone is banned on dreamhost, because of its resources, but we're talking about web2py on WSGI, not plone :) SO again, it all comes back to what your planning to do. If you want something that gives you the most for your money, and your just starting out, I think dreamhost is excellent. HOWEVER if you need to run plone, just skip the shared hosting completely and go with a VPS (I had a cheap one about a year ago that cost me only $15/mo for 512ram). I know alot of people that use web2py have webfaction and love it, I can't speak for webfaction since I have never used it, however I do use dreamhost for a low cost personal playground that I don't have to worrya bout limitations, and at work we use mediatemple.net. If I ever created a website that needed more than dreamhost could provide on their shared hosting, that would be the time to get an m(t) account. -Thadeus On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Richard <richar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > do they define what "fair use" is? > Webfaction only gives you 80MB on the cheapest plan, which is about > what Plone requires (damn Zope is heavy!). > > > On Sep 29, 11:57 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.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. > > what did you mean "because of the price"? - Webfaction is cheaper than > Dreamhost. > > Richard > > > > On Sep 29, 11:57 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > > Unlimited memory usage, however they will kill your process if you are > using > > more than your fair share for an extended period of time. > > > > As for the price, my referall code waives the setup fee. > > > > -Thadeus > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Richard <richar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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. 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