General
What makes a Kutoken VM so 'Django' anyway? Isn't it just another VDS?
Fundamentally, yes. There's nothing to stop you using a Kutoken VM to host a PHP or Ruby or Rails or Tomcat or Clojure or any other type of app.
What makes Kutoken a great platform for Django is the pre-built easy to install packages, avoiding the tedium and frustration of managing dependencies yourself, and the support. How many other hosts can you ask a question about your Django application's performance and get a knowledgable answer?
Are backups included?
All Kutoken machines come with two backup snapshots, taken early every morning (GMT). If you don't have an alternate backup solution, it is recommended that you purchase the Kutoken backup extra, which provides a full 90 days worth of historical backups. All backups are stored off-site in an encrypted format.
Technical
I made a change to my code/settings.py - why doesn't it seem to have had any effect?
You need to restart Apache for changes to Python code to take effect - just run 'sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart'.
Apache seems to be gradually using more and more memory. What's wrong? Does Django have a memory leak?
You're probably running with debug mode turned on. Debug mode stores all SQL queries in RAM, so it'll pretty quickly eat through memory. Change DEBUG to False in your settings.py and restart Apache.
Where's the database?
By default, we no longer install a database engine. To add your own, just type: 'sudo apt-get install mysql-server' (for MySQL) or 'sudo apt-get install postgresql' (for PostgreSQL).
How can I send email from my Kutoken VM?
You need to configure your mail server - by default it only sends internal mail. To do that, just run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'.