David Sissitka wrote: > In case anyone is wondering, that is Remi from WebFaction, and that's > also why I am a WebFaction customer. :) > > On 9/25/06, *Remi* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Just a few comments about WebFaction. > > > I am a WebFaction customer, definitely not a bad company. A few > thoughts > > about WebFaction: > > > > 1) It's a one man show, at least, support is. > > WebFaction started with just 3 people but we're growing quite rapidly > right now so expect to see more people soon :) > > > Support ticket response times > > are anywhere from three hours to a day and a half. > > We aim to respond within a few minutes or hours (depending on how > urgent the ticket is), and always within 24 hours. If a ticket took a > day and a half to get answered it was a mistake on our part and should > never happen. > > > 2) The control panel may be appealing but it is definitely > flawed. It > > supports Firefox and Internet Explorer, but things are pretty > slow with > > Opera. Their long running process monitoring (You're allowed one > long > > running process at $14.50 USD a month.) is pretty bad as well, > stopping and > > restarting your Apache instance leaves orphaned processes that you > > cannot monitor or kill off yourself. > > I think you're talking about our control panel not killing the > processes for you when you delete an application from the control > panel, I just fixed that bug today :) > > A couple more things: > I can't tell for sure but I'd say that we're probably one of the hosts > with the most Django sites right now (we host more than 200 of them). > By gaining some experience from all these sites we've been able to > eliminate pretty much all problems (like the libexpat version mismatch > that was causing Apache to crash sometimes) and fine tune our setup. > I think that we now have one of the best setup for shared hosting: we > give each site their own Apache2/mod_python instance proxied > behind our > main Apache server. This gives them maximum flexibility to start/stop > their Apache server on their own and edit their httpd.conf file as > they > want. > But we also configure our main Apache server to serve static data > (images, stylesheets, ...) directly, for maximum speed (this frees > each > site's Apache2/mod_python instance from having to serve all those > little requests). > > Remi. > > > > > > Mmm...i am thinking about parting with some hard earned too []'s
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