thanks! slicehost sounds nice too. it just is a bit expensive for what i do (even if it is cheap compared to similar offers). i find virtual private servers very interesting and i hope such webhosting will become cheaper once more extreme multicore processors (8 or 16 cores,...) come out.
On Nov 21, 10:55 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dreamhost.com looks quite interesting though. how can they offer 500gb > > for that price? are they serious and reliable? do they allow > > subleasing of webspace? > > I don't recommend Dreamhost as a host for Django applications. They > are 'serious' and their tech support is usually very helpful, but it > is an undesirable situation for a couple of reasons. First, they can > offer their amazing deals by overselling their resources. Second, it > is shared hosting so the reliability and performance of your machine > will depend on the other accounts hosted on the same machine, which > you cannot predict. In that same vein, you simple don't have much > control of your situation. > > For example you might want to setup Memcached. Well... you can't. Or > you might want to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL... and you can't. > And you might want to restart Apache... and... you can't. All these > things are relatively minor, but combined they make for a situation > that is probably untenable for an important project. > > There is a newish offer by Dreamhost called DreamHost PS which allows > you to get guaranteed memory, etc, on the machines you are running on. > This is something of a step in the right direction, but you're still > going to be suffering from machines with unpredictable loads from > other individuals, and the people who I have known who use DreamHost > PS have not been resoundingly happy. > > Personally I have had a very pleasant experience using Django on > Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com). Essentially you get a virtual > machine to do whatever you want with, along with no overselling to get > performance and reliability more predictable. I wrote a howto on > getting started with Django on Slicehost (http://www.lethain.com/entry/ > 2007/jul/17/dreamier-dream-server-nginx/), if you go that route. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
