Sigh. It’s crap like this that will eventually force me to leave WebFaction (that GoDaddy acquired), after a decade of excellent service. I never touched GoDaddy, but it looks like the plague comes to you these days.
This. WebFaction, in my eyes, is as good as shared hosting can get. Built an entire company on top of its robustness & trustworthiness. I was beyond dismayed when I heard the news of the acquisition (sorry, "partnership") and every time the GoDaddy integration is mentioned I go surveying the alternatives.
Not really - the market has moved on to PaaS, a reliable shared-hosting-cum-shell with a Python slant is not easy to come by.
I’ll probably go with an OpenBSD vps somewhere, praying not to get hacked, plus Heroku for when I really can’t be arsed to look after a service. Quite a pain in the ass, though. At least my domains are already on Gandi...
