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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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Webfaction Django 1.4.1: serving static and media with custom nginx build

I have a custom nginx build for my project and everything works fine except I'm confused about serving static files using the same nginx server (below you can see my config file) recently tried to set root=/home/USERNAME/media/app/ and root=…
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Scaling Django storage on webfaction

I launched a website a month ago that allows users to upload pictures. The site is taking off and I could be out of my 200 GB of space on webfaction in 2 or 3 months. What is the best solution to scale? Is it Amazon S3? or should I look into other…
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How to restart nginx on webfaction?

I followed this post to install nginx and use it to serve another django app on webfaction- http://www.ravelrumba.com/blog/install-nginx-webfaction/ I had started nginx using sbin/nginx as mentioned in the post. I closed that ssh session, so server…
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django cron error on webfaction

I am trying to get a crontab task to work on a django project hosted by webfaction. I modeled it after a statement identical to one that works on a different webfaction server: */2 * * * * (cd /home/mb52089/webapps/smartcarpools_prod/smartcarpools;…
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Can't deploy a simple Flask application on Webfaction

I have been trying to get Flask to work on my webfaction server for hours with no results. I followed the instructions at http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/65/ I have my index.py file stored under htdocs. import sys yourappname =…
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Webfaction illegal in EU due to judgment in Case c-311/18?

Our data protection officer, in relation to the judgment c-311/18 (https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2020/statement-court-justice-european-union-judgment-case-c-31118-data-protection_pl), questioned the possibility of storing personal data on…
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Webfaction 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable

I have a problem with my email address (exemple@mydomain.com). On webmail.webfaction.com, I success to send email to exemple@gmail.com, but when I reply, I have 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable. It's the same when I write directly…
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Hosting ASP.NET application with SQL Server DB

I have a web site developed in ASP.NET MVC and used MS SQL Server as a back-end database. I was trying to host this application on webFaction, but unable do do so as it seems WebFaction does not support hosting of ASP.NET applications. Can I host…
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Deploying Django Project on Webfaction

I'm quite a newbie in Django, and web dev in general. I've been following tutorials and guides in making a Django project locally. Now, I want to deploy my project to WebFaction. I followed all of their instructions found here:…
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ProgrammingError Django 1.7 (1146 error, marketing slider does not exist)

I have now managed to get an ecommerce page working fine on local host, however, when I am trying to get it working on webfaction I get the admin page working and the static files working for the .com/admin however for the main page I get this error…
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PHP mail() not sending

I have a WebFaction server and the following code: $to = "outreach@bmun.org"; $reply_to = "From: " . $_POST['email']; $name = $_POST['name']; $subject = "Outreach Request Session for " . $_POST['school'] . " on " . $_POST['date']; $em =…
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Admin redirect to domine.com/admin from domine.com/app/admin after login

Hi I've got a problem my problem is that I Have two apps in the same domine: mydomine.com it has the first app loaded. mydomine.com/app2/ it has the second one loaded If i go to : mydomine.com/app2/admin I'm able to log in but after I log in…
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Deploying django: "no module named.."

Im trying to deploy my django proyect under a webfaction server. I have an app named "home". FACT A) If i move my "home" folder to the same directory of manage.py and i set my setting.py like this, the app works fine. INSTALLED_APPS =…
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RoR application will not load, following basic tutorial

I'm able to get this working on my local, but on my sever at webfaction, I get the following stacktrace: Stacktrace: There was an error in your Gemfile, and Bundler cannot continue. (Bundler::GemfileError) …
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