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One-click installers: project management tools 20 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
It’s time for another installment in our ongoing series about the one-click installers available with the control panel. Today’s look is at project management tools. Project management tools are handy...
One-click installers: content management systems 30 Jul 2013 | 08:20 pm
It’s time for another installment (pun-intended) in our ongoing series about the one-click installers available with the WebFaction control panel. Today, it’s all about content management systems. Whe...
New Django screencast 16 Jul 2013 | 08:37 pm
Django is a fun and handy Python web framework, so it’s not exactly a surprise that it’s one of our more popular one-click installers. Given that popularity, we’ve created a short screencast that show...
One-click installers: Ruby 30 May 2013 | 08:31 pm
For our second post taking a closer look at the one-click installers available with the WebFaction control panel, it’s time to look at running Ruby applications. For Ruby developers, we have two key i...
One-click installers: Python web frameworks 9 Apr 2013 | 08:19 pm
This post is the first in a series taking a closer look at the variety of one-click installers available with the WebFaction control panel. Today, we’re starting close to our Python roots, by taking a...
Introducing our new control panel design 3 Apr 2013 | 08:10 pm
Today we’re excited to unveil the latest change to the WebFaction hosting service: a new design for the WebFaction control panel. This new design is the most visible change but under the hood it comes...
A look at installing your own tools on WebFaction servers 19 Mar 2013 | 08:09 pm
In previous posts, we’ve demonstrated how to use software we provide through one-click installers or through your shell account. But sometimes you may want to use something we haven’t installed. Today...
Welcoming Ruby 2.0 8 Mar 2013 | 04:38 pm
Today we’re happy to announce that the recently released Ruby 2.0 is now available on all of our servers. You can run Ruby 2.0 today as ruby2.0. Here it is on Web310: $ ruby2.0 -v ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-0...
A look at version control on our servers 7 Mar 2013 | 08:45 pm
Appending version_36 or final_2 to a file name is no way to keep track of different versions of files. Instead, we’re lucky to have a wide variety of version control tools at our disposal. And a webse...
Django 1.5 is here! 27 Feb 2013 | 01:16 am
Today, the latest version of Django has been released. And we’re happy to make it available to you with the new Django 1.5 one-click installer: Django 1.5 brings with it several major improvements, in...
