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Downtime...

Posted Sept. 22, 2008 at 4:42 p.m. by wheaties

As some of you may have noticed, my Web host is having brain farts all over the place lately. None of my sites are very usable thanks to the poor quality of service and support on the part of my host right now. The problems seem to have begun around noon on Friday, September 19th. The symptoms include random HTTP 500 (internal server error) messages or extremely long load times.

I'm in the process of switching to a host that is more reliable. This new host is perhaps one of the best in the industry according to all of the reviews that I've read. Let's hope I have better luck there.

Comments

1. Is it dreamhost? They are the best. In my opinion.
   Posted by: chansen , 23 sep 2008, 7:50 a.m.
2. The original host was Site5. I'm now on WebFaction (as of 2am this morning). According to popular vote (on DjangoFriendly.com), DreamHost is the absolute worst in terms of support for Django.
   Posted by: wheaties , 23 sep 2008, 8:05 a.m.
3. Oh, right, Django. I forgot. While it is true DreamHost does not support Django, I would have to say that their support for supported things is amazing. Their custom panel is so simple and easy to use, the features are great and the price to oh so good.
   You are correct though, if you are going to host some django site, don't go with DreamHost. Their major support is with PHP and MySQL. But I know you can also have Perl, and I have heard a lot about Ruby on rails lately. I don't know if it is supported or just allowed like django.
   Posted by: chansen , 23 sep 2008, 3:20 p.m.
4. I've actually setup Django on several DreamHost accounts. It's not as bad as some people make it out to be. But it's true that Django is not officially supported, and therefore is not the best thing to try to run on their services. Apparently it's the same with Site5--my PHP stuff still works fine on Site5 when all of my Django sites are down.
   Posted by: wheaties , 23 sep 2008, 3:23 p.m.
5. It is good practice to have a backup PHP site for any Django site anyway. I thought I read that somewhere.
   Posted by: chansen , 23 sep 2008, 3:26 p.m.
6. Ooooo.... burn.
   Posted by: jtsnake , 27 sep 2008, 7:44 p.m.
7. This might be thread highjacking, but I couldn't find an email address on quoteboards.org so I'm commenting here in hopes that it'll be properly received.
   
   I attempted to start an account on Quote Boards this morning, but the site gave me an error after I entered my information. I tried signing up again, but it told me that an account was already created with that username and email address. I can't log in with the password I created, though! I can see on the public quoteboards list that my account has been created, though (I used the username with which I'm posting here).
   
   I know you're probably busy with other stuff, but I'd appreciate it if you could look into it for me when you have a chance. QB looks way better than the Google Document in which I've been keeping my quotes up until now... I found you originally when looking at Thunderbird extensions at addons.mozilla.org.
   Posted by: augmentedfourth , 30 sep 2008, 1:38 p.m.

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