Nginx & Django on Webfaction – Part 2

Hopefully after finishing Part 1a and Part 1b you have a working Nginx + Django install on Webfaction. In this installment I’m going to show you how to keep your site running through app failures and server reboots.
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Better Fonts in Safari for Windows

I have been experimenting with the fonts available from typekit for web design, and was really disapointed with their rendering on Windows.

Safari Font Rendering

Safari Font Rendering

Firefox Font Rendering

Firefox Font Rendering

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Webfaction Memory Usage Script.

This is a nice little script that I found on the Webfaction forums. It will let you know how much memory you are using so that you can avoid going over your limit. The advantage of this script is that it will discount the per-user Apache threads from the main Webfaction Apache instance, which are not counted towards your memory usage.
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