Category Archives: General

A few months ago we started offering servers in Europe. Today we’re happy to announce that we’re now offering servers in Asia too (in Singapore to be exact). Most hosting providers charge an extra fee for hosting in Asia but … Continue reading →

Six months ago we started using much beefier servers for our shared hosting plans. We also started upgrading the hardware on our existing servers. We did that because we wanted to give you as much memory for your apps as … Continue reading →

We’re pleased to announce that starting today we’re guaranteeing a 1h account activation time for all new signups*. This guarantee also applies to upgrade/downgrade requests from the control panel (except dedicated IP addresses). This will allow you to rapidly scale … Continue reading →

It took a lot of preparation but I’m happy to announce that we are now offering hosting in Europe (in Amsterdam to be exact). If your websites’ visitors are mostly in Europe then you might want to consider putting your … Continue reading →

As you might have noticed we rolled out a new control panel theme today: Apart from the style everything is the same as before except for a new domain management interface which is the same as the beta control panel … Continue reading →

[March 4, 2011: This position has been filled.] We’re currently looking for a support engineer for the US day shift. Read on if you’re interested in joining our team! Job Location Anywhere in the world. This is a telecommuting position. … Continue reading →

I can’t believe it’s already been 7 years since we registered python-hosting.com which later became WebFaction. We’ve come a long way since 7 years ago and we have lots of exciting announcements for the next few months. Here is the … Continue reading →

After weeks of testing, Drupal 7 has arrived and so has our latest one-click installer: Drupal 7 is a major update to the popular content management system. It has a host of new improvements, such as: Web-based theme and module … Continue reading →

We now have a new twitter account for status updates: http://twitter.com/wfstatus This will be a mirror of our status blog at http://statusblog.webfaction.com

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 →