Latest improvements
Posted Jul 24 at 08:19 CDT by Remi in Django, Drupal, Email, WordPress - 5 comment(s)
Just because we're quiet on the blog doesn't mean we're not hard at work... Here are a some improvements that we've made lately:
- Lots of new installers: WordPress-2.6, Drupal-6.3, Django-0.96.2 and others. We usually add these within hours of their release.
- New PHP setup: We're gradually rolling out a new PHP setup which fixes a security issue. Your PHP files are now run inside mod_php as your user, which means that there is no more hassle with permissions and uploaded files being owned by apache. See our status blog for details of the rollout.
- Better spam detection: We're now using a combination of SpamAssassin and some black lists to filter out the spam on our new mail platform.
5 comments:
Noah said on 2008-07-24 16:26:25:
w00t w00t I've been waiting for the fix on the user permissions for a while, I feel much better now! :) thanks
SAn said on 2008-07-31 01:35:04:
Realy thanks!, it was scaring me that any user with apache credentials could do whatever he want with my "apached" files.
Pranav said on 2008-08-01 15:25:26:
Any plans for Webfaction to offer the newly open sourced Reddit code to add as an app ?I mean -- install it just like I'd install the django app or the WP app ?
that would be so super cool if Wfaction did it.
thanks.
Sean said on 2008-08-01 15:38:57:
@Pranav - we'd like to do that, but unfortunately, the Reddit code requires PostgreSQL v8.2, and the majority of our servers are running 8.3 or higher. If they can work around that, then we can take a look at making an installer for it. :)
This is cool news. The php issue has been the reason why I was hesitant to move all my sites to wF.