Using cmd tools when hosting a site

Question

Do webapp hosting sites such as webfaction.com support the use of cmd tools such as pdftk and pdftotext? For example, if in my django-powered site I do something like

subprocess.Popen("pdftk.exe....")

would this still work when I begin hosting the site?

Answer 1

On webfaction at least, you can install such tools in your own directory and then call them. If your process starts hogging memory, it may get killed off. For example see this thread on the forum.