[Texas] Good first-timer Django hosting?

[Jeremy Boyd]

Hi Kojo,

Glad to hear our conversation at PyTexas is bearing fruit. :)

I've been a happy WebFaction customer for years. It's a great way to get
started, has a lot of 1-click installers for popular software (including
Django). As a beginner, you get a lot of the benefits of a VPS in that
you're forced to do some minimal system-level work, but you don't actually
have to maintain a box.

Their customer service is also supreme. More than once I've had an app
shove my memory usage over the limit; rather than charge me a ton extra and
let me know, they generally send me a nice note and then eventually just
shut off the offending app if it's obvious I'm not paying attention. This
is a span of days or weeks of leeway, not minutes or hours. And they are
Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to their forums. If you have an issue
they're happy to hop in and look at your code to help out.

Other people will surely say you should go with a VPS solution or some
PaaS, but those solutions are either too involved or hide away too much of
the actual work that goes into maintaining a site. WebFaction hits the
Goldilocks spot perfectly IMO.

Best of luck, and feel free to email me (or the list! this list needs
traffic!) if you have any questions.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Kojo Idrissa <kojo.idrissa at gmail.com>
wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm planning to set up a Django site as my personal site/blog, and may
> build more sites in the future. I've got a hosting account with Hostgator,
> but I figured I'd ask some more experienced folks who they like for hosting
> Django (or other Python web stuff)?
>
> According to http://djangofriendly.com/hosts/, WebFaction is highly
> regarded.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts on the matter?
>
> I'm sure this has been asked plenty of times before, but we didn't have
> our Python Web Meetup this month, so I couldn't ask there. :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kojo
>
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