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For work, we just purchased 2 years of Dreamhost. I just switched to Site5 for my personal use. Both serve RoR and/or Django. You might have to install/configure your own Django, installation though (which is allowed). Although I prefer the amount of freedoms on Dreamhost, I find that Site5 has more reliable equipment and hardware (overall, there’s always specific problems to any host).
For checking my site’s uptime and being contacted via multiple types of communication methods, I signed up for http://mon.itor.us/, it’s completely free so far and simply has one section of simple Google Adwords at the footer of the customer page. It’s all AJAX/JavaScript based (I have it set to contact me via ICQ and email, SMS, Jabber, Yahoo, and MSN are all options as well)...it sounds like an advertisement, I know, but I’m pretty surprised at what they offer. I’ll stop praising and let you simply check it out on your own.
I recommend and use WebFaction for Django and Rails, and I’m not the only one who shares such an opinion. There control panel makes deploying your Django or Rails application simple. You may have seen it already but a while ago a screencast of their control panel in action made it’s way around the web. I’m not affiliated with WebFaction but I really like the company, especially their control panel API which allows you to write installation scripts (Think Fantastico but better.). The community is fairly small and Remi, the developer of CherryPy, seems to be a one man support machine but I help out whenever I can in the forums.
I was a TextDrive customer for a couple of months, the experience wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great either. Just two weeks ago I submitted a support ticket and it was over a week before I recieved an initial response. If you don’t mind Webmin you should be fine, but don’t count on TextPanel (Which has been in development for years.) being released any time soon.
I’m very pleased with the WebFaction service (for Django) , and they helped me solving several problems very quickly.
It’s worth mentioning that their control panel isn’t perfect but it’s getting better all of the time, a few things that bother me are:
-The JavaScript is obtrusive and slower in Opera than in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
-The page flow could be better.
I’m currently working on a Django application that will make the lives of developers of scripts for the API in Python simpler and as soon as I’ve released something that I’m happy with (A week or two.) I’m going to figure out what is wrong with the JavaScript.
+1 for WebFaction
You can run Django with FCGI on Dreamhost, A Small Orange, TextDrive and most shared hosts. However if your site has many visitors you should deploy Django with mod_python: in this case WebFaction is the right choice. They are simply fantastic: they offer one-click install for django, rails, trac, svn, postgresql, mysql, turbogears, etc. via their control panel; moreover their support is very friendly.
For Django deployment you should read these docs
I’m going to have to recommend slhost . I just purchased a VPS from them about two weeks ago and their support is fantastic. Since its a VPS, you will be able to run just about any sort of application you want, and for most popular frameworks, they should be able to install the software for you.
I am currently using dreamhost as my own personal webserver, for blogs or just storage, but for any actual web apps, I recommend getting a VPS or some really quality and fast hosting.
I’m using Site5 for all my personal sites, and I’ve never had a problem. Saying that, you do get what you pay for, and as with all these “have unlimited this that and the other for $9 a month” hosts, they wont be able to cope if you’re hosting some huge scale app with ALOT of traffic. Many hosts claim unlimited space and bandwidth, but it’s irrelevance because if your site gets too much traffic, they can disable/block/kick/ban you for too much “resource usage”, which is basically CPU usage.
Slicehost looks really good.
Jack Sleight: I’m using Site5 for all my personal sites, and I’ve never had a problem. Saying that, you do get what you pay for, and as with all these “have unlimited this that and the other for $9 a month” hosts, they wont be able to cope if you’re hosting some huge scale app with ALOT of traffic. Many hosts claim unlimited space and bandwidth, but it’s irrelevance because if your site gets too much traffic, they can disable/block/kick/ban you for too much “resource usage”, which is basically CPU usage.
Yeah, I’d try to avoid any “unlimited” or $5 hosts. If you want a decent host, you’ll have to pay for it.
Railsmachine(http://railsmachine.com) is number one RoR hosting.
Vlad: Railsmachine(http://railsmachine.com) is number one RoR hosting.
256MB of Memory, 10GB of Storage, 100GB Data Transfer and 1 server. $75/month + $30 setup
Hm, Slicehost seems to have the exact same deal for $20 a month, except of course you’ll have to set up your own production environment. I think I would want to do that though, so when the time comes I’ll probably choose Slicehost, although the landscape might be different by then.
Yeah I was looking a slicehost it looks pretty nice. However I do wonder how well XEN handles their load and if any problems are
introduced when running in a VM.
Joyent now has smaller Solaris containers available. Roll-out will start the week of March 19th.
Joyent containers were delayed. I got a slice instead. It’s, um, nice. Good community as well.
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