Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Django and Ubuntu Intrepid Almanac. Will Larson’s impressively comprehensive guide to configuring and securing an Ubuntu VPS from scratch to run Django, using PostgreSQL and Apache/mod_wsgi behind nginx.

# 14th February 2009, 3:42 pm / apache, django, modwsgi, nginx, postgresql, sysadmin, ubuntu, vps, will-larson

Djangofriendly (via) Ryan Berg’s attractive new site collecting ratings and reviews for web hosts that support Django. I’m still happily hosted on a bytemark VPS, which isn’t currently listed on the site.

# 26th March 2008, 8:47 am / bytemark, django, hosting, python, ryan-berg, vps

Troubleshooting Memory Usage. Useful for getting the most out of a VPS.

# 23rd January 2008, 6:52 pm / hosting, memory, vps

Nginx vs. Lighttpd for a small VPS. My VPS is still running nginx with no problems at all.

# 10th January 2007, 11:31 am / hosting, lighttpd, nginx, vps