Ruby on Rails hosting - I need help
I am currently looking to find good Ruby on Rails hosting. I tried two web hosting plans from two different companies, and I am not convinced. I like to run Mongrel on my server, and I really need high availability.
I found a huge list here, but it is hard to choose the perfect web hosting company. Most web site hosting companies are good at Php hosting. I can always find great php hosting, some of these hosting companies runs ruby on rails using light http server or using Fast CGI which seems sucks.
If you have recommendations about good hosting companies, please post a comment.
I appreciate the help.
Isaac said,
May 19, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
Maybe you could give some more details about what you are looking for…for example: whats your price range ? What are your sysadmin skills like ? shared hosting or VPS or something else ? Does it matter where the servers are located ?
If you give as much detail as possible then it will probably be easier for people to make recommendations.
admin said,
May 19, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
I need it for personal use, I am willing to pay up to 200 dollars per year.
I do not mind about server location. Is that enough info?
Isaac said,
May 20, 2007 @ 2:03 am
If you want total control and you’re comfortable with a VPS I’d go with slicehost.
Otherwise I’d go with hostingrails.com - they let you run mongrel with guaranteed memory in a shared hosting environment.
which companies have you tried so far ?
Cheba said,
May 20, 2007 @ 3:08 am
Try SLiceHost. I’m happy with it.
Ajay said,
May 20, 2007 @ 4:10 am
Try slicehost VPS offering cheap and rocking.I hosted couple of site on it.
Also try lightspeed with lsapi very nice app and web server combination
admin said,
May 20, 2007 @ 10:56 am
Thank you very much for the advice.
Aníbal Rojas said,
May 21, 2007 @ 6:31 am
We have a good experience with RailsPlayground if you don’t want to administer your own box, this is a great resource. Tech support does know rails, fcgi, mongrel, etc.
Winston Tsang said,
May 31, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
We discussed this in April at our local Ruby Group (http://www.RubyMI.org). Slicehost is an good option if you want to manage your own server. If you prefer a more hands off approach take a look at WebFaction (http://www.webfaction.com). It comes highly recommended.
Hugh said,
June 2, 2007 @ 1:16 am
OCSSolutions is great too for VPS, shared hosting, or managed dedicated.
Slicehost is great for VPS.
admin said,
June 2, 2007 @ 8:20 am
Thanks to all of you who tried to help me.
It seems that every one more to support VPS hosting. No one even mention any shared hosting.
I will post this on Ruby on Rails Wiki for others so they gain benefits.
Abhishek Parolkar said,
June 14, 2007 @ 3:54 am
Hey,
As you need “high availability” … forget going for VPS or dedicated hosting…. try AMAZON’s EC2, contact them , they now support rails stack to be as VM IMAGE
tovorinok said,
July 5, 2007 @ 2:08 am
Hello
Great book. I just want to say what a fantastic thing you are doing! Good luck!
G’night
Justin Shreve said,
August 16, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
I use Site5 and it seems to work for me.
Pei Mei said,
September 5, 2007 @ 3:37 am
It may be on the expensive side for a VPS but nothing beats RailsMachine (http://www.railsmachine.com). That is, if you want a real rails environment using Mongrel, Capistrano and more.
I have a few production sites there and updating and deploying is a snap.
Good luck.
Scott said,
December 3, 2007 @ 9:00 pm
I use SilverRack - a great VPS provider. They have Centos and Debian stacks ready to go with Rails. VPS rock over shared hosting - you’ve got control over everything.
Scott said,
December 3, 2007 @ 9:01 pm
I use SilverRack - a great VPS provider (http://www.silverrack.com). They have Centos and Debian stacks ready to go with Rails. VPS rock over shared hosting - you’ve got control over everything.
tasaro said,
December 27, 2007 @ 8:30 am
Linode virtual servers: http://www.linode.com/
The Linode Manager is extremely powerful, every major distro is supported, multiple IPs, IP failover between multiple Linodes, console access, three data centers to choose from. They also sponsored the Rails Rumble - http://railsrumble.com/