> I'm still on the fence about which provider to pick for hosting my > non-mission critical application. (I only work on it as a hobby.) > > Any advice from people who use VPS solutions for running TG apps?
I can't speak for Gears per se, but I have done the Webfaction and Xen VPS thing for two clients with Django, and I would definitely recommend a $20 Xen Slice from Slicehost over $15 shared at webfaction or similar python friendly shared hosting setups. However, that depends on knowing that you and only you will be screwing with the machine. IMHO, these frameworks are very powerful but way too delicate to let the client touch, so I roll deployment and hosting into the budget and explain to them that yes they are paying a couple hundred more for hosting and setup, but that's what allows me to give them a website that's $1000 better than standard market value and still get it done fast. Then I tell them that if they need to be able to use their own hosting, that's fine, but my price tag will have to go up by a few hundred to a grand depending on what I will be forced to use and how much it will slow us down. This works like a charm. ;) This is even more true if you dev on linux ( or bsd I guess ) at home. It is sooooo much nicer to deploy the clients app on an identical file tree to my home box, than to figure out how someones shared service works for the framework. And performance is way better. Plus you can lock the machine down as you need. I put a web based upload on the clients site, does anything they need for simple html uploads, and now the machine needs to have no ports open except ssh for me, and apache's for the website, no ftp, no mail, nothing. I can even ssh into the slice, wget tarballs of the app and the db off my home box, unpack and bam, new update! I wrote a bash script to do my Ubunutu/mysql/apache django migration, when I've done one for Gears I'll be sure to put it on the wiki in case it's useful to anyone with a similar setup. Hope that's useful, Iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
