juanefren

We are a Saas based startup, started using Linode 5 years ago, as we started getting more clients we hired a local company to manage our servers, they recommended us a dedicated server which they resell to us, we had not the best time with them, for example: we suffered a hardware failure twice, slow response time, offered old CentOS distributions making our app harder to configure, very slow to scale, etc... After less than a year we decided to get back to VPS servers, and gave digital ocean (which offered the same service than Linode but for 1/4 the payment at that time) a try.

Everything was excellent with DO, amazing API, cheap prices, friendly panel, acceptable support, we have one 32GB droplet, three 8GB droplets, and one 512 MB droplet.

How ever we have had very unfortunate times lately (from July 2014 to today), problems in NYC2 (https://status.digitalocean.com/) made our clients very angry and today we had another problem with one of our droplets (it did not boot because of a scheduler backlog), so we are looking for new server provider.

We offer ERP like service so it is critical for us to have the best possible up time during daytime, we don't have any problems with maintenance downtime on nights for example.

What kind of solutions or providers would you recommend?

I have an app that uses Django Python and Postgresql.

Right now is running under Linux/Apache/mod_wsgi, how ever have read about Nginx and Gunicorn (also uwsgi and others) as a better option...

I would like to read your recommendations (advantages and disadvantages) about deploying django.

PS: I am mainly developer so I lack a lot of knowledge about sysadmin.

I am running a SaaS startup company in Mexico, right now I am using a shared server but now looks like it is time to transfer to something bigger, I would like to hear your recommendations. This is what I need: Fast service (fast response with requests).

Possibility to add sub domain names automatically from shell.

Possibility to create databases from shell. (each client uses his own subdomain and his own database)

Modern Linux environment. (Preferably Ubuntu 10.04)

Not hidden charges

I am looking for something around $100 U.S. Dollars/month. I am using Webfaction right now. Their service is very good, but with shared hosting I can't do points 2 and 3 (I have to manually create them each new client is registered). And spending $350/month for a dedicated is just not possible for us

I am starting (together with a friend) a company in Mexico, we have been developing a web application by 1 year. We want to hire one or two programmers right now, What recommendations do you have to protect our application ?