Comments on: WebFaction Web Host Review

By: hcabbos

hcabbos — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:25:53 +0000

Yes, thanks for the review. Very helpful. I’m considering moving a few more sites over. I set up my first account with them a few weeks back. Still in the process of building the site but Rails one-click installer is great. Now I hope they get Ruby 1.9.2 on the list of one-clickers.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:52:56 +0000

Signed up with your affiliate link thanks to your recommendation.

By: Rob Flaherty

Rob Flaherty — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:23:01 +0000

Hank,

I’m glad you liked the review. I just updated the post to say that after about 2 years I continue to be very happy with WebFaction. I also mentioned that PHP mail() is now supported. Thanks for letting me know!

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:19:56 +0000

Thanks for writing this review. I’m going to sign up with them. I have been looking around for a while. I use amazon ec2 now and really tired of the self-management. Just a note, I read on their blog, that you can use PHP Mail(); now. Here’s link to their blog post.

http://blog.webfaction.com/2010/12/sendmail-now-enabled-on-all-servers/

By: Rob Flaherty

Rob Flaherty — Tue, 24 May 2011 22:28:28 +0000

@Danny,
Thanks. I’m glad you liked the review. I’ve been using WebFaction for just under two years and I continue to be very happy with them. The control panel you see now is actually the result of a recent redesign. Unfortunately, I’m not sure the design is any better. It still feels clunky and dated to me.

As I mentioned in the post, there are some WebFaction conventions you have to get used to — mapping “apps” to “sites”, and stuff like that — but once you get familiar with it I think you’ll find it’s a nice way to manage multiple apps/sites on a single host.