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Webfaction is a hosting company which offers managed shared or dedicated servers.

Webfaction is an hosting company which offers managed shared or dedicated servers. A very popular feature is the one-click installer for various web frameworks (django, ruby et al.) and services (wordpress, drupal et al.) . Their services are based on SoftLayer's data centers in US, Amsterdam and Singapore.

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bzr push bzr+ssh gives me an error on webfaction

I setup bzr repo on both server and local. I am trying to push the code from my local directory to server, I am using the following command: bzr push bzr+ssh://@.webfactional.com/myrepo it asks for password and then gives me the…
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Rails/Passenger uses too much memory on WebFaction

I have deployed two apps on WebFaction. The output of passenger-memory-stats contains: 27626 261.6 MB 54.8 MB Rack: /home//webapps/app1/current 31603 398.5 MB 60.3 MB Passenger RackApp:…
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how to access local files on Webfaction server?

I am trying to access a file on Webfaction using: f = file(filepath,'rb') where filepath is : home/rgh/webapps/trsaastrarium_django/filebrowser/files/TRSA Schematic/Maisam architects & engineers/H4-Dims(201-206).pdf. I tried to accessed the…
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ROR Wicked_pdf generates boxes instead kannada fonts in webfaction

In anapplication, We use wicked_pdf gem to generate PDF. The contents of PDF are in "Kannada" language. In the local machine, we always get the correct fonts in the pdf. However when we generate PDF from the app deployed in webfaction, we get boxes…
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Crontab Django script on webfactional

I need someone to figure out why is my cron job not working on webfactional. There is a couple of similar questions but my case is particular I think since I could not make it work yet. So I have this script on python which can be run python2.7…
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imagick installation on webfaction

I had installed ImageMagick on my local server and it worked perfectly fine. But when I moved to webfaction, and tried installing it on the server I had issues. The ImageMagick is installed on the server but I am not able to install the php…
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Connecting to postgresql gives password authentication failed

0 Hi, i'm new to django. i'm building a django project on server Webfaction. i got an error when i do "python manage.py sync": > Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 10, in > execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File …
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Automated data collection from a website into my database?

I've got a Django-based website using a PostgreSQL database hosted on Webfaction. I normally manually collect the data for my database (copy-paste into a text file) from another website which lists all of the data on a single web page in an HTML…
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pip tries to uninstall system packages

I'm using pip on webfaction and it keeps trying to uninstall system packages and then failing. For example if I try to install Fabric, one of the requirements is pycrypto. When it tries to uninstall it, it fails. Is there anyway to tell pip to…
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I trying to start openerp-server with cron script

I have a webfaction account and I install openerp-server 6.1.1, when a start the server from ssh session it's works, when I close the session it close the server too. So I'm trying to start the server with cron. From cron I call a script like…
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Webfaction:: My site seems to be interrupted by other one, just showing "OK" text

My site usually works well but sometimes just show just simple "OK" text. I don't know what is wrong.. and it seems very odd. Webfaction and My site use Nginx as a server, but when my site is interrupted by the unknown one, the response header tells…
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Django Directory Structure / Module Not Found

I use WebFaction for hosting. On their website I created a Django project. It gave me this directory setup: /home/account_username/webapps/app_name/myproject/myproject/ Why "myproject" is used twice here? I do not understand what each…
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Is my django project consuming an unusual amount of RAM?

This is hosted specificly on webfaction, the django project has a static only application but that's it. It also runs celeryd and memcached, but those processes have expected memory consumption. Some clues maybe to the problem Setting debug to true…
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Fabric problems with reloading supervisor on remote host

My project is hosted on Webfaction and supervisor is used to be aware of processes. I use shell utils to get the PID of supervisor and it works just fine when I do it manually, but I got random PIDs when executing the same command remotely with…
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Webfaction Django 1.4.1: easy_thumbnails 3.0b – "Couldn't get the thumbnail" error

I use easy_thumbnails and it works fine on a development machine but in production I get errors like shown below, when I use {% thumbnail photo.image 300x170 %} templatetag. Though can directly browse…
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