[Lancaster] Hosting - WebFaction

[jonath]

Yeah, I use WebFaction. Fantastic service.

I use them primarily to back-up my photos, but I also use them on my
web-site so that all my photos / videos are served from there, rather
than my rather piddly 1MB/s upload home broadband. I have a few basic
PHP running there as well.

When I was doing my research, there weren't that many companies that
did Linux hosting AND had rsync running, but WebFaction do. See, I'm
backing up my photos on a cron job using rsync and to do that, both
source and destination need rsync installed. But I don't know . . .
you might have you own requirements.

If you take out several years of pre-paid account with WebFaction, you
get a cheaper deal, which is worth bearing in mind.

I dunno. I can't think of anything negative to say about WebFaction.
It just works. That said, I've never messed about with all the
database and web apps they provide; I've never needed to.

jonathan

On 5 December 2013 17:11, serko <kserko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ι actually switched to Webfaction after Andy's recommendation, and although
> it lay there unused for a while, over the last few
> months I've come to put it to good use. Specificaly I have set up a phpbb
> forum and Mediawiki instance for a community project I'm involved.
> This is no way makes me an 'advanced' webfaction user, but for what it's
> worth, in my experience it's a really good service providing a great amount
> of flexibility. One thing to take note from a personal experience though.
> They do provide shared MySql instances if you want to knock something
> together as fast as possible, but I found that this often creates "too many
> connections" error as the mysql instance is shared among users of the same
> machine. They do however allow you to set up your own Mysql instance which
> cannot be shared with anyone (and solves the mentioned problem), but this
> process is not automatic, it takes a little configuration but it's worth it.
>
> just my two pennies worth
> Serko
>
>
>
> On 05/12/2013 16:52, Richard Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm thinking of looking for new hosting for a website, and the one that's
>> looking best is WebFaction - their description of how to use their control
>> panel to set up your own code as a daemon and contact it over a port is v.
>> impressive, and exactly the sort of stuff I need - and I think I remember
>> that it was mentioned favourably here, a while back. By Andy Baxter, IIRC,
>> and maybe a couple of others.
>>
>> So, given that that was a while ago, maybe there are people here who've
>> been
>> using it for a while. Does anyone have any comments on what it's like,
>> long-term, is it really as good as it looks ? Or if you dropped it, why ?
>>
>> What I have is a backend database (perl + mysql) running as a json-rpc
>> server behind an /API url, and a front-end Drupal website that asks it
>> questions and displays the results (plus a little bit of static content),
>> plus I like to do development on the same server via ssh. Which isn't
>> going
>> to work on most cheap hosting, but from what I've seen so far, looks as if
>> it'd be right up WebFaction's street. I've been doing it on a VPS so far,
>> which was good while I was working out how to do it, but now I know that
>> I'd
>> really prefer to find somewhere with more competent admin (wry smiley).
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Lancaster mailing list
> Lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lancaster