We use Windows desktops at work, but naturally nowadays even our customers expect web sites to be deployed to Linux servers. Here’s a couple of things I learned in the process of deploying a Django app from my workstation—running Windows 7—to a development server running Debian GNU/Linux 5 ‘lenny’. Read more
This was originally going to be part of my note on porting from Windows 7 to Debian 5 ‘lenny’, but I split it off in to a separate post. Read more
I said in an earlier article I would outline my Django deployment recipe. This is largely derived from a recipe for Deploying A Django Site Using FastCGI in the Django Advent site. Read more
I have discovered that whenever the name MySQL is mentioned, someone will make a choking gurgling noise and complain that it isn’t PostgreSQL. Now that MySQL has been consumed by Sun, which has in turn been consumed iby Oracle, I thought I would see how hard it is to switch. Read more
On my server I use D. J. Bernstein’s Daemontools package to run the servers for my web sites (other services are automatically installed in to the init or init.d directories).
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I have switched to Gunicorn since my attempts to make uWSGI multilingual have failed disastrously. Read more
My latest experimental web server needs a task queue to do asynchronous processing. Here’s how I deploy Celery on my Ubuntu server. Read more