News & Blog

OK, after some serious work and refactoring, we are now up and running on Django 1.0b and Satchmo 0.8pre, as of today -

The new shop and Django features are quite impressive, and include many things we used to have to do ourselves.

You will see us gradually putting our Satchmo eCommerce ’shop’ back together over the next few weeks to be back up to full functionality.

As always, you may reach us for sales and support via email.

j

Please pardon our dust (please order by email or phone!) as we reimplement portions of our eCommerce engine to use the new updated Satchmo Release, 0.7 (we are using SVN trunk).

Previously, we were on the Satchmo 0.6 release (and we implemented the TrustCommerce payment engine for the project, for that release).

We hope to have the eCommerce signup capability back up and fully functional within a short time.

In the meantime, we can accept your orders and support emails through our usual email and phone channels.

Joe

Libre Hosters,

In addition to our usual Django vMachine instances, We now have a vMachine of Django’s Satchmo eCommerce engine available -

In keeping with our commitment to provide the latest ready-to-roll Django hosting, we now offer this  vm with Satchmo preconfigured.

This therefore includes:

• trml2pdf – http://paketler.pardus.org.tr/contrib/source/trml2pdf.html
• comment-utils – http://code.google.com/p/django-comment-utils
• Postgres 8.x (the latest available when you sign up, 8.2, 8.3, +) - http://www.postgresql.org/docs
• MySQL 5.x (the latest available when you sign up, 8.2, 8.3, +) – http://dev.mysql.com/usingmysql/python
• SQLite3  – http://www.sqlite.org/changes.html
• Any other DB available on request

Just indicate your preferred Database and any other packages you’d like installed in the “Custom Notes” field when you place your order.

Note that we run our shop on Satchmo and Django (and the Blog on WordPress).

j

The latest release of Ubuntu is out, Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS, and it’s gotten Great Reviews so far -

And we now have our vMachine available and ready to go, with the usual package buildouts of our favorite platforms.

We are finalizing the installation scripts and packages, but currently available are Rails 2.02 and Django 0.97-SVN with others forthcoming – watch this space for details on finalized package lists.  (Our previous postings on Django and Rails indicate some of the usual choices)

Also, as always, we use the KVM virtualization technology, which provides a number of technological advantages over the other v12n solutions.

Our vMachine is based on the minimal footprint of the Ubuntu JeOS release, which is now Fully optimized for KVM, including VirtIO, according to Canonical/Ubuntu -  we have a mere 700MB basic footprint for the guest, with a full array of services including ssh.

With your favorite stack from us, your vMachine will still typically be under 900MB, even with xrdp  for your remote desktop XWindows access!

We can host your site / solution and provide any technical assistance and consulting help which you may need.

New: We can also host your desktop!

In addition to the usual VNC (and of course SSH offerings, including X) We offer RDP via XRDP, and we are working on a fully open-source version of the GPLed NX NoMachine technology – and we also hope to be able to offer Qumranet’s (A cool vendor) SolidICE  technology – watch for an announcement.