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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 subdomain forwarding

I have shared hosting on webfaction and I want to have www.mydomain.com forward to mydomain.com, in the same way that www.stackoverflow.com redirects to stackoverflow.com. In the webfaction control panel I set up a CNAME record linking the…
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MongoDB instance stops running on Webfaction

I am running MongoDB on Webfaction as a database of a Django app . Problem is I have to keep my SSH terminal session open and use this syntax to keep running MongoDB . mongod --dbpath ~/webapps/mongo_db/mongodb/ --port 31706 As soon as I close my…
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how to prevent access to admin urls in Django?

Django gives admin url automatically, such as www.example.com/admin. I do not want any outside visitors to access this url. This should be accessed only with in the host and allowed IP address. If I try to access to https://instagram.com/admin/…
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Problems with fabric deployment

Im using the fab script from here. fab deploy throws an error at right after creating the application. The error is: Fatal error: Low level socket error connecting to host username.webfactional.com: Connection refused (tried 1 time) Underlying…
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How to force install package in virtualenv?

Trying to install django with different version that in system, it shows me: Installing collected packages: Django Found existing installation: Django 1.7.11 Not uninstalling django at /home/user/lib/python2.7, outside environment…
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Gunicorn: site slows down after inactivity period

I'm hosting a Django site in Webfaction with gunicorn (a master + 4 workers). I've settled with 4 because I've had good results in the past for the traffic I get, and "CPU cores * 2 + 1" just eats up my RAM. Under normal usage, the gunicorn workers…
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How to load test Django API?

I'm putting the finishing touches on my Django-based Webfaction-hosted server. It has a REST API that will deliver content to mobile devices, and will accept POST requests from a different source every few minutes. So far, the POST part is going…
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supervisord always returns exit status 127 at WebFaction

I keep getting the following errors from supervisord at webFaction when tailing the log: INFO exited: my_app (exit status 127; not expected) INFO gave up: my_app entered FATAL state, too many start retries too quickly Here's my…
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serving django media (user uploaded) files in production

I have deployed my django website onto webfaction hosting service and i am struggling to find how i can serve user uploaded media files in production. There are lot of question regarding how to serve media files in development, but there seems to be…
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Webfaction redirect no-WWW to WWW (static app, htaccess file)

In webfaction, I want to redirect mysite.com to www.mysite.com I have the following: A subdomain www.mysite.com. It has a website with a Django app. A subdomain mysite.com. It has a website which has a Static/CGI/PHP app. This app is called…
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Google App Engine vs WebFaction

Possible duplicates: GAE + Python vs Webfaction + Python + django - for a relative new dev Hello, I am developing one of my hobby project using django-nonrel on google app engine. The basic part of the application is finished. Now for the some…
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How to prepare Django for a possible slashdotting?

I would like to prepare my website for a possible influx in traffic. This is my first time using Django as a framework, so I'm unsure of the modifications that should be made to assure that I'm ready and won't go down. What are some of the common…
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Deploying Django application on Webfaction

This is the first time I am trying to deploy my django project (myproject) on Webfaction. My project dir-structure is as follows: In webapps/django: myproject.wsgi, myproject settings.py is at myproject/src/myproject/ Under such circumstances,…
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I can only import the Stripe Python library under a certain version of Python

I use Webfaction, and this is the command line for the shared host. [zallarak@web198 ~]$ python2.6 Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Nov 23 2010, 02:02:03) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license"…
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Mod_pagespeed is enabled. FileCachePath must not be empty:

I've tried to restrain myself from asking too many questions on Stack Overflow, but I have been trying to get mod_pagespeed enabled on my Apache2 server for a couple days now, and am ready to start pulling out my hair hah. I installed mod_pagespeed,…
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