Luckydonkey has moved
The time came to move LuckyDonkey from PowWeb hosting. LuckyDonkey had been hosted by them for just over three years but I needed something with a little more. PowWeb offer a great service:
- 300GB of diskspace
- 3000GB of monthly bandwidth
- Unlimited mailboxes
- 75 MySQL databases
- Genuinely friendly support people
- Large community of users who are very helpful
All for $5.77 pm. But PowWeb lacks:
- SSH/sFTP access
- Python
- PostgreSQL
This may not seem important but if you are working on a TurboGears project python is pretty important. I'm a huge fan of PostgreSQL and nothing beats being able to SSH to the actual box running your website to see how it is performing (this includes being able to see who else is running on it and how much CPU/Memory they are using). So I've moved to WebFaction.
It's not all good at WebFaction though. You get 2GB of disk space and 200GB of bandwidth on the cheapest plan of $7.50 pm. That is a huge step down... but think about it. Who uses 300GB of disk space on their webserver? Exactly. PowWeb give there customers HUGE amounts of disk space knowing that no one is going to use it. WebFaction also place restrictions on how long processes can run for and how much memory they can use. This sounds bad but it's probably the reason everything seems to run so well. They don't let a few members hog all the resources.
WebFaction have one significant upside. Their service is significantly faster then PowWeb. They are at best an order of magnitude faster at serving Wordpress pages. At WebFaction's slowest periods the speed I'm seeing is equivalent to PowWeb's fastest speed.
They also offer an affiliate program so all the above links are laced with my affiliate code 