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by chubot 493 days ago
(author here) Oh interesting, I haven't heard of them

I imagine this is a PHP site? They say:

cPanel or DirectAdmin with all the goodies: Litespeed, LSCache, PHP8, JetBackup & more

I have a PHP app, but also some Python apps ... How do you use Python? For cron jobs, or with CGI?
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indigodaddy 493 days ago
Cpanel Python support I believe is more robust than DirectAdmin, some pretty good info here at cpanel doc site:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360049921014-Ho...

RE: the CloudLinux-specific python features, I _think_ Namecrane has cloudlinux on all their shared/crate plans

And since namecrane I believe also uses litespeed on most or all of their plans, here's some related info that includes some python things: https://docs.litespeedtech.com/lsws/cp/cpanel/cloudlinux/

PS BuyVM/Namecrane/Frantech have an active discord with good/active/friendly company participation. Nice little community..

BTW I really enjoyed your article! This topic isn't explored that much these days and was a breath of fresh air

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chubot 493 days ago
I'm glad you liked the article! I hope to write some follow-ups -- this kind of thing has been bugging me for 1 to 2 decades :-)

I think it's mainly the stability. I don't think it should be that hard to serve some static web pages and some output from a Python script. Yet even Google internally had like 10 different solutions that were constantly being deprecated

Most software infrastructure really assumes you have a big team behind everything, because you need a team to make money

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I was not aware of the Litespeed server ... I looked through the source code and it looks well done!

I think it's a shame that nginx doesn't support the ~/user model with CGI. I mentioned in the post that it seems to recommend uwsgi, but I think that is a bad and non-Unixy protocol

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I'm not sure if I would rely on the Phusion server on shared hosting -- I mentioned in the previous post that Dreamhost quietly deprecated it:

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/06/cgi.html#contrast-gate...

And it supports a few languages as special cases, which I don't like. I would like to plug in my language YSH without modifying their codebase! It should be a Unix-y protocol

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