[Lancaster] Hosting - WebFaction

[Richard Robinson]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:11:57PM +0000, serko 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.

That's worth noting, ta, and one I might possibly run into. If I did need to
do the latter, would that then run in my own memory allocation ? I'm seeing
the way that you only rent the RAM for your own stuff as a major gain,
compared with running a whole VPS.

Not a major issue (I don't think), just a point of interest - it's looking
very much like this is worth at least a tryout.

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> 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).
>>

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Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem