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Posted May 28 at 12:17 CDT by Remi in Django, Drupal, Email, General, Memory, Plone, Python, Software, WordPress, Zope  - 6 comment(s)

Here is a quick update on what's been happening lately at WebFaction:

• New Webmail interface: Squirrelmail served us well for all these years but it was time for something a little more modern. We've setup a new webmail interface (AtMail) at https://atmail.webfaction.com and we'll make it the default at https://webmail.webfaction.com in the near future (we'll still keep Squirrelmail at https://squirrelmail.webfaction.com for people who want to keep using it).
  
  
• New backup system: In the last few weeks we've rolled out a new backup system on all of our CentOS servers. The new system is a lot faster and lighter on the server and as a result the load on the server isn't impacted when it's being backed up.
  
  
• Mail platform improvements: We keep improving our mail platform and we now have better spam detection than ever and we're able to enable new servers within seconds if mail traffic increases.
  
  
• New installers: We regularly add new software or new versions to our one click installers. Lately we added the latest WordPress, Drupal, Django, Plone, Joomla and more.
  
  

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Tips to keep your Django/mod_python memory usage down

Updated Jan 28 at 04:44 CDT (first posted May 30 at 09:57 CDT) by Remi in Django, Memory, Tips  - 19 comment(s)

Most people manage to run their Django site on mod_python within the memory limits of their "Shared 1" or "Shared 2" plans but a few people are struggling to stay within the limits.

So here are a few tips that you can use to try and keep your memory usage down when using Django on mod_python:

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Memory usage

Posted Jul 26 at 11:30 CDT by Remi in Help, Memory  - 16 comment(s)

Introduction

Our plans come with the ability to have SSH access to our servers and to run long-running processes.

This greatly facilitates the ability to run and debug powerful tools that you might want to use for your site, but this comes at a cost.

Since you're sharing the machine with other people we have to make sure that your processes don't use too much resources. The resources that your processes use include:

• Memory
• CPU
• Disk IO
• Network IO

In this article we'll focus on memory usage.

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