Gypsy Hosting
What's this, then?
Gypsy hosting is a small-scale hosting service for Django developers. Although Django will run in many typical shared hosting environments, this one is specifically tuned to serve Django sites.
Who's behind this?
Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the lead developers of Django. I've been the systems administrator for a number of Django installations for over a year and have used that experience to tune Gypsy hosting's environment.
What's the hosting environment?
Hardware:
- Dual 2.0 Ghz Opteron
- 8 GB RAM
- 10,000 RPM SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration
- Collocated at Wholesale Internet in downtown Kansas City, MO
Software:
- Ubuntu 5.10 ("Breezy Badger")
- PostgreSQL 8.0
- Apache 2 for Django; each user will get his/her own Apache instance
- Lighttpd for media hosting
- Email: IMAP/POP with SSL/TLS, SMTP AUTH, unlimited email addresses, webmail.
- Full shell access; multiple user accounts upon request
- Any package from Ubuntu installed upon request
What's the deal?
$24 / month:
- One PostgreSQL database
- One Django admin site (set up and ready to go when you sign up)
- One media server
- Unlimited public Django sites (served from the same database)
- 7 GB disk space *
- 10 GB monthly bandwidth *
- 128 MB memcached instance
- Two hours of free technical support each month
An additional Django installation (one database/admin site/media server and unlimited public sites) can be added on to a single plan for an extra $12/month. Past that, If you anticipate higher traffic (and/or have a bigger budget) multiple accounts are available at a slight discount. There is also a 10% discount for pre-paying a year in advance.
Custom plans are also available; use the contact form to let us know your needs.
Sign me up!
We've reached capacity of the current server hardware, so new accounts are unavailable.
What's the fine print?
They're pretty minimal, but by signing up you are indeed implicitly agreeing to Gypsy hosting's terms and conditions.
* Bandwidth quotas are "soft"; they will only be enforced if the entire server goes over its bandwidth limit. In that event each user will be directly billed the cost of any additional bandwidth. Similarly, disk space quotas will only be enforced if the entire server starts to fill up.