Monthly Archives: November 2010

A look at our Python setup

You may not know this but WebFaction started as a specialized Python hosting provider (it was even called python-hosting.com) so as you might expect we have pretty good support for Python. Let’s SSH into one of our servers and take … Continue reading

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RoundCube (our webmail app) upgraded

We’ve upgraded RoundCube (our webmail app at https://webmail.webfaction.com) to the latest version. The upgrade includes lots of bug fixes and an increased maximum attachment size (the limit is now 15MB).

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Meet our new Q&A community site

Until recently we’ve been using a normal forum for public questions and answers from our community. The forum model has two major drawbacks: it’s not easy to update information so the content can become obsolete quite soon and people can’t … Continue reading

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Speed-up your pages with mod_pagespeed

Last week Google released two new tools to help people make their websites faster. The first one is a Firefox extension called “Page Speed” which gives you a performance analysis of the website you’re viewing as well as lots of … Continue reading

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Welcome to our shiny new blog

As you might have noticed we’ve moved our blog to this shiny new WordPress-based blog. This will be the new home for lots of exciting announcements … PS: For the nostalgics our old posts are available at http://blog1.webfaction.com

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