On 13-Jan-08, at 9:40 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen webfaction, though never checked it. But can you install > software that does not come as standard Python like Genshi, > pyparsing with web faction
Yes you can. You get your own $HOME/lib/python2.4 into which you can put pretty much anything. My first Production site using Django (a telco engg application), is running on Webfaction since May 2007 :) And I've only good things to say about webfaction. Go for it. I've also used VPS(Slicehost, Linode and Grokthis.net). However, for most apps the webfaction a/c is sufficient and enough. If you enjoy doing your own server administration, and have some exotic requirements (Say, you want to run NGINX server, which by the way is sooper cool server), VPS may be a good option . Otherwise webfaction gives a very good deal. You have to remember that all their plans include RAM amounts which apply to your app only. Basically the 60MB RAM (plan-1) is counted only towards your app and does not take into consideration the memory used by the OS, Webserver, DBServer etc., Which is a good thing. If I may hazard a guess, a 60MB shared-1 plan on WF may be better than running your own 128MB VPS. I've used Shared-1 and later upgraded to Shared-3 because we needed bigger harddisk. -Pradeep _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
