Django and Dreamhost – not now

Argh! I simply cannot get Django to work on Dreamhost. I hereby eat my words.

I’m really not worried about it, to be honest.

I tried for hours, and the best I got was extremely spotty results. Even the simple “hello.fcgi” directly copied from the Dreamhost Wiki only works about 30% of the time. This is not acceptable at all for a business site, obviously.

I’m not irritated, since they directly say that Django is not reliable on Dreamhost, but it is unfortunate. Instead I’m going to move up to a VPS system. On the Django mailing list, that’s the suggested arrangement, plus I really miss having root powers on “my box”, like I do at work.

If it goes well, as I am sure it will, I’m considering offering developer/starter Django accounts through my VPS as a reseller. I think I could provide that for about $10 a month. It would be very useful for others in my situation.

[tags]VPS,Dreamhost,Django[/tags]

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