Code and Life

Just thought to post a brief and shamelessly positive note on my current hosting provider, WebFaction. It was actually their one-click WordPress installation procedure that got me playing around with blogging, which then lead to founding this blog. I ran into it when searching for suitable site to host Django-powered software, which lead me to this comparison of Django-friendly web hosts.

Now this probably wouldn’t be worth noting otherwise, but WebFaction is the only provider so far (leave a comment if you find others), that fulfilled all my stringent requirements for a hosting provider:

1. Support for PHP, Ruby on Rails and Django (this alone is hard without virtual servers)
2. Support for MySQL and PostgreSQL (to suit the daily mood)
3. No arbitary limits on subdomains and domains within plans (it’s not like they cost anything to the provider)
4. Starting cost must be below $10 a month (I’d rather scale up when I actually have traffic, not beforehand)

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A lot of people are asking me (of course I have to make this stuff up because I don’t have any readers) how I’ve done the menu bar (the horizontal thing containing static pages and categories, just below the name of this blog). This is a good question, because the menu bar is actually widget-ready, so I don’t have to change it when I add new categories. “But how have you avoided the widget headers and still remained strictly XHTML compliant?”, I hear some of my imaginary readers say. Well, I’ll tell you how.
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