Yesterday I moved www.webcommunicate.net and blog.webcommunicate.net to WebFaction. I had been using WireNine as my host since May 2007.
I have no complaints about WireNine. They’ve been great. I still use them for some of my clients’ websites and wouldn’t hesitate to use them in the future. I opened the WebFaction account in September only because they are set up better for Django, a development framework I use for some behind-the-scenes tasks like keeping track of invoices, expenses, etc. Ultimately I decided to move everything to WebFaction for the sake of simplicity.
So, I now have two hosts I can recommend: WireNine and WebFaction. I have more experience with WireNine, but I suspect WebFaction will be just as reliable.
WireNine uses cpanel, a very popular control panel that most web people are familiar with by now, since it is used by so many hosts. WebFaction has their own control panel. Normally I think it’s a mistake for a host to develop their own control panel, but in this case I like it. It’s a very straightforward, no frills interface with dropdown menus across the top.
In addition to the Django installation, I have also installed WordPress, Xaraya and Drupal on WebFaction. WebFaction has an auto-installer for Django, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Rails, TurboGears, Zope, etc. Xaraya is not an option in their auto-installer but it was easy to install nonetheless.
