Lonely Lion

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Lazyweb: What's next for Django / hosting?

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I’m soliciting opinions here for inexpensive Django hosting that doesn’t suck. Victim of Time is quickly outgrowing it’s $9 / month Dreamhost account, and needs a new place to live. If I had unlimited funds, I’d go for a dedicated server, like during my heady days of debt ridden ServerBeach hosting of non-profitible projects. As it is though, VoT is well on its way to being solvent, but I don’t want to cut into the budget unnecessarily.

Any suggestions? Right now I’m leaning towards TextDrive, as I met one of their founders at Snakes and Rubies, and really liked the guy. They’re very much in the “as long as it runs under FastCGI, we’re all over it” line. They’re also very Django-aware, and seem attentive. They have a pretty solid looking shared plan that you can upgrade to Business hosting or a sort of Virtual Private Server. Their pricing is a little high for the VPS stuff, but the shared is reasonable, and you can pay a year in advance. I also like that they’re (obviously) pretty Rails friendly, so there’s no problems with me moving other projects over at the same time.

Any opinions out there?

Written by Chris

August 29th, 2006 at 10:58 am

Posted in Projects,Python

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  • http://joyeur.com/ Jason Hoffman

    Hi Chris, thanks for really liking me and just wanted to let you know that we’ll be rolling out smaller, inexpensive containers very soon (notice that the ones there now are 2 or 4GB of RAM and RSS memory-wise, that’s a bit for most people, it’s basically what an entire shared server has) and these support django running under apache 2.2 + mod_python quite well.

  • http://lonelylion.com Chris McAvoy

    Hi Jason,

    I totally couldn’t remember your name. Thanks for the update. You’re right, the stats on the current container servers are as high as a dedicated server. The high price comment wasn’t a knock on TextDrive so much as me saying, “high priced for me, given what we need.”

    If you guys field a VPS “Container” with full root, less impressive stats, and cheaper price tag, I’d be all over it. For the time being though, I’m talking to the editors of the site about jumping from Dreamhost to Textdrive shared hosting. The doc at http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/book/15 leads me to believe that fastcgi isn’t my problem on Dreamhost, it’s their way of handling fastcgi. I’m keeping my Dreamhost account (you get a ton of stuff for $9), but I’m moving my non-php production apps to Textdrive.

    Consider this my stamp of approval.

    Chris

  • Remi

    The best host for Django is probably WebFaction: http://www.webfaction.com/django-hosting

  • http://djangohosting.com Hugh

    I ended up going with Webfaction, but for anyone else looking for a django host I put up this site: http://djangohosting.org

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