convore.json/groups/django-community/whats-on-your-mindwhere-to-go-when-webfactions-support-is-insufficient-for-your-client/messages.json

[{"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913029.4085591, "message": "I've been working on a site as a side project for close to a year now, and I recommended that we use WebFaction for deploying things.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375957}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913080.5344319, "message": "In my opinion, things have been running very smoothly for quite some time, but recently, we're receiving several dozen emails each day about MySQL not being able to do what it needs to.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375965}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913109.133693, "message": "This means the site is experiencing a lot of unhandled exceptions and people aren't getting what they're after.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375971}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913186.6522689, "message": "I think that decision was finally made about a week ago, and we're still experiencing random downtime.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375978}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913216.1760349, "message": "WebFaction suggested that we migrate to a different shared server, but my client would rather just move on.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375980}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913253.4250381, "message": "The only other service I feel comfortable recommending is Rackspace Cloud Servers, as it's the only other one that I've got significant experience with.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375984}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913331.5643289, "message": "What other hosting providers would you recommend for a Django site, which relies on Satchmo and lots of customized apps? Why?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375987}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307913158.3070371, "message": "We've opened support tickets to try to resolve the problem, and WebFaction keeps saying they're going to take \"definitive action\" against the user who is clogging up MySQL on the shared server.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1375976}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307923386.5452471, "message": "I guess another fairly obvious requirement is a support team that somehow outshines WebFactions team...", "group_id": 81, "id": 1376563}, {"user_id": 456, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307941387.2829399, "message": "gondor.io is built on rackspace cloud servers", "group_id": 81, "id": 1377357}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307942207.4675801, "message": "@jtauber I have an account with gondor.io that I still haven't managed to play with. Perhaps I can use this as an opportunity to get the hang of things. If my client approves, would it be possible to get an invite for him so this project can be passed off to other developers in the future?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1377465}, {"user_id": 456, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307941427.093677, "message": "and our support team obviously has deep django experience", "group_id": 81, "id": 1377369}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307942346.1360991, "message": "Also, there are some PHP parts to the site (like IP.Board)... Is that supported by gondor.io? (I really need to do more research on gondor...)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1377477}, {"user_id": 1127, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307945935.199847, "message": "@codekoala you can look at Heroku as well", "group_id": 81, "id": 1377815}, {"user_id": 215, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307952314.8297751, "message": "@codekoala PHP is not supported on Gondor. I'd be happy to give out invites. I just need email addresses. I suppose you can DM here or on Twitter (@brosner)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1378308}, {"user_id": 34431, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307963620.3839669, "message": "linode are fantastic. They have a very reasonably priced tiers, great performance, a custom management console (and recovery console) and renowned support. Most tickets you open get replies in minutes", "group_id": 81, "id": 1379305}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307965900.700655, "message": "@zeeg Wait wait, does Heroku really support Django and PHP?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1379484}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307965677.7762761, "message": "Sorry for all of the duplicate posts/silliness in my posts for this thread--the Convore app on my iPod is experiencing a lot of network timeouts...", "group_id": 81, "id": 1379470}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307965732.734683, "message": "@zeeg Thanks for the reminder on Heroku, I'll have to do a little more research into it.\n\n@brosner Thanks for being willing to hand out more invites!!", "group_id": 81, "id": 1379475}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307965797.7777469, "message": "@pastylegs I've heard good things about linode from other people too; this might be one of the contenders simply because it's one where I can do whatever I want? (right??)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1379481}, {"user_id": 34431, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307967390.819803, "message": "@codekoala Yea it's essentially a VPS. You can upgrade quite easily though if traffic gets heavy. You can image your server with a selection of unix images. You will have to set up everything manually though (webserver, uwsgi etc)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1379558}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307967483.1343379, "message": "@pastylegs thanks :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1379578}, {"user_id": 34360, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307971652.0954211, "message": "Can I be newsy and ask what kind of MySQL errors you are seeing?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1380019}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307973672.9132409, "message": "@tclancy we get hundreds of emails a day with errors similar to this:", "group_id": 81, "id": 1380174}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1307973681.554559, "message": "DatabaseError: (1, \"Can't create/write to file '/mysql-temp/#sql_24a2_0.MYD' (Errcode: 17)\")", "group_id": 81, "id": 1380177}, {"user_id": 34360, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1308140894.148653, "message": "A little annoying that their first suggestion was to move to Postgres. Even though I should.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1399942}, {"user_id": 34360, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1308140879.236419, "message": "Ah, that's what I've been seeing on one site (haven't seen it on any of the other dozen or so). WF said it was due to complex queries in the ORM forcing temp files and MySQL not cleaning up after itself. It was only on one page, so I just added a .select_related() and haven't seen them since.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1399940}, {"user_id": 12817, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308147723.2949409, "user_id": 5778}], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1308141104.033591, "message": "@codekoala DotCloud supports both Django and PHP, my understanding is they have to be on separate subdomains (could be wrong though).", "group_id": 81, "id": 1399961}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1308147961.8906231, "message": "@tclancy yeah... I am thinking about moving to postgresql for the main Django site... Unfortunately most of the PHP is hard-wired for MySQL.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1400911}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39134, "date_created": 1308147931.5181811, "message": "@adambrenecki thanks! My client has already had me begin migrating to Rackspace. So far so good...", "group_id": 81, "id": 1400901}]