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Dedicated IP address is needed ?

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Sep 212009

Two main reasons why dedicated IP is needed:

1. better search engine

- many different opinions on this, but it looks that dedicated IP seems to be helpful for search engine result

2. SSL support

- e-commerce website needs SSL which requires a unique IP address.

One note is that webfaction.com does not provide dedicated IP but private IP address.

Private IP address is a bit different from dedicated IP.

If you typed http://64.233.187.99/ into your web browsers address bar you would see Goggle’s web site come up. This is their dedicated IP address and no one else’s.

Private IP address does not support the above (#1) but it can support SSL (#2).

Django friendly Web hosting service

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Sep 142009

When I have been surfing around django sites, I saw many webfaction service advertised.

For my new project, I just started to search for web hosting service and finally decided to go with Webfaction.

The major concern I had in choosing webfaction was limited disk space and bandwidth.

However, I realized that anyway my website will have low traffic and need less amount of disk space in the beginning.

The positive perspectives were

1. many positive reviews and happy customers

2. the most django-friendly service, easy setup and they can also support mod_python (most other sites seem to support fastcgi only)

3. it has subversion support

This is beginning and I don’t know much about running the website. But let’s see how it works out!

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