Re: Help me choose OS for django server

Whatever gives you separate physical resources. The idea is to prevent your app and static content delivery from interfering (i.e., consuming CPU, memory, bandwidth) with each other. The cheapest and most effective way to accomplish this is using a CDN or something like Amazon's S3. For relatively light usage, it will only cost you a few dollars a month, and you don't need to worry about setting up and maintaining a separate server yourself.

_Nik

On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Chris Pagnutti wrote:

So by "another server entirely" you mean to actually subscribe to another hosting service (or a second account on my current service)?  I'm sure it's in the docs if I look, but how would I deal with media uploads that way?

On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:50:30 PM UTC-4, Chris Pagnutti wrote:

Hi.  I want to set up a production server for a django application.  constant.com offers Virtual Private Servers which should give me virtually full control over the server, allowing me to install django and all the stuff I need for my app to run properly.

First, is this a good idea?  Do you think I can do this securely using the django, apache, and lighttpd docs? or am I asking for trouble?  What are the major security issues I need to be aware of when administering a server?

Also, if I go this route, I'll need to choose an OS.  I'm running a production server (just Apache + mod_wsgi) using my Arch Linux box, but I don't think arch is the best idea.  I'm sorta trying to decide between CentOS and Ubuntu.  Leaning toward CentOS, but just a little worried it might be missing some of the packages I need.  I've never used CentOS before.  Any advice?

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