This post is the fourth in my series about the new Django hosting services that just recently hit the market. Previously I have reviewed ep.io , gondor.io , and dotCloud.com .This post reviews AppHosted.com , another similar service that is currently in beta. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak of this service before it was released to the general public, and here are my notes and impressions for the short time I had to play with the new service.
I work for a company called CashStar, most people have never heard of us, but a lot of people have used our products without even knowing it. CashStar is the man behind the curtain so to speak. We created an e-gift card platform that is used by some of the largest companies in the United States. Here is a short list of some of our customers: The Home Depot, Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Staples, Coach, Starbucks, CVS, Chilis, Regal Cinemas, Pottery Barn, The CheeseCake Factory, Dell, Pizza Hut, and many more.
warning This post is out of date, please read the new updated one: Deploying my Django application to dotCloud Part 2 I have recently wrote about ep.io and gondor.io, two new python/django hosting services that are currently in beta. Another new service that has just recently hit the scene and is causing a lot of waves is DotCloud.com. DotCloud is a little different for a number of reasons.
The other day I wrote about a new Django hosting service called ep.io , after I made that post, I was lucky enough to get an invite for the private beta of gondor.io, which is similar to ep.io but from the folks over at Eldarion. In order to test out the service I decided to take my Dango blog application and deploy it to Gondor and I kept notes along the way, here are those notes.
Over the last decade I have deployed my applications many different ways, I have used, self managed dedicated servers, fully managed dedicated servers, Virtual Privates Servers from Linode, RackSpace and Amazon, shared hosting from webfaction, and I also used Google App Engine. I have learned a lot of things along the way, but the one thing I learned the most is that managing the server and keeping it up and running isn’t fun.
I always seem to forget this, so I’m going to post it here for easy reference. To restart the Apache web server service you can run the following command in a Mac OS X Terminal window: sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart
Upgrade the stock MySQL 5.0.x build to the new stable MySQL 5.1.x Percona version. Here are my notes on upgrading on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) or CentOS5. First we need to stop mysql service mysql stop; I’m assuming that you don’t have the percona repo installed on your machine, if not follow this link on how to set it up. Setting up Percona RPM Repo mkdir -p /tmp/downloads cd /tmp/downloads wget http://www.
It includes the following: Class-based views Logging Extended static files handling unittest2 support Transaction context managers Configurable delete-cascade Contextual markers and comments for translatable strings Improvements to built-in template tags Caching changes For more information checkout the official release notes: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3/
I have been using the Percona build of MySQL 5.0.x for a little while now, and I have been impressed. Now it is time to upgrade to the new stable MySQL 5.1.x version. Here are my notes on upgrading on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) or CentOS5. First we need to stop mysql service mysql stop; I’m assuming that you have the percona repo installed on your machine, if not see follow this link on how to set it up.
Django 1.2 has been released I have been waiting for this release for a while now, mostly because it includes some of the features I have been dying to get my hands on. The ones I like the most are support for multiple databases smart-if template tag The new Email Backends relaxed requirements for usernames. Here is a list for some of the features, and a little bit about each one.