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WebFaction Hosting Is Awesome

by Paul Kenjora on April 2nd, 2007

I started using webfaction.com 3 months ago for my Django website hosting. I’ve deployed 3 sites to their servers in that time. Getting my first site up was a challenge because I didn’t have much experience setting up Django for Apache. Luckily WebFaction set up a forum that proved indispensible. Since then I have set up a new website in 10 minutes.

I was deploying sites so quick I used up their Tier 1 domain limit (3 sites) pretty quickly. I sent them an ticket via their customer control panel and within 12 hours I received a reply:


> I need to add a few more domain names to my account. I've hit the
> limit of 3. Can I add 3 more domains/websites to my account? Who
> do I contact and what is the price?

I've added 5 apps/domains/sites for free to your account so that should help.

Normally you would have to upgrade. The procedure to upgrade is to just ask for an upgrade in a ticket.

Regards,

Remi.

Talk about customer service, I like that they keep things human, my sites aren’t sapping their bandwith (yet) and so they gave me a good deal for what costs them nothing. In return I will expand my sites, bring in new customers, contribute to the forums, and eventually pay big dollars without complaint. I strongly recommend these guys for Django and/or Ruby on Rails, they support both.

Thanks WebFaction

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  • i love web faction so much.. I've heard a lot of reviews about it and i would also like to testify it's wonderful use.
  • The Django stuff is managed a little bit. Basically you use a web control panel to associate a Django instance with a domain. THis sets up a directory and some basic paths. Then you use full shell access to set up your project, modify all Apache settings (you get your own instance) and access the database etc...

    First time around I experimented with how much control I have. Turns out, alot. Just takes time to figure out what you can mess with. THe forums are absolutely essential if you want to get started.

    I now administer all my sites purely from shell. Only access control panel to add domains.
  • Can you confirm what they're like speed-wise? (I presume they must be faster than Dreamhost.....) Plus, do you get full shell access, or is the Django stuff managed in some clever way?
  • ben
    Webfaction definitely know what they're doing. No BS and like everyone is saying, great support. In addition to some Django sites I also host a Plone /Zope site with them and they do a great job there as well. Just being able to find a host that supports Plone is great.
  • I concur! I recently hosted my client's Django site with WebFaction and have been absoluteley impressed by their customer service and technical help.

    Go Webfaction
  • rezzrovv
    couldn't agree more. I'm loving webfaction.
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