Forum: Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails hosting

Hello all,

I'm in the market for a web host that supports Ruby on Rails. I've
looked at Heroku, but really find them quite expensive. My budget is
around $50-70 USD / month. And possibly on a VPS or semi-managed
server.

Im a web dev and I'd like to focus at what I do best. I really don't
have time for sys admin stuff. I'd like to have a server up and
running to serve my web files why I work on web projects

So far, I am considering Knownhost and/or Wiredtree (which are also
semi-fully managed web host providers).

Anyone have had any experience with other reliable web hosts, worth
mentioning?

Some have suggested Linode. Although, this is a non-managed web host.

I've been using VPSs from Rimuhosting and Slicehost for years. Both are
excellent, and have tons of help to get you up and running. A VPS is
definitely a great way to go, and has proven far more reliable with 
hosting
my rails apps than any turnkey service like Media Temple's Rails 
Containers.

Plus, hosting Rails via Passenger these days really makes things a lot
simpler for us non sysadmin-ninja types.

Good luck!

Matt

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Christian Fazzini <

Christian Fazzini wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm in the market for a web host that supports Ruby on Rails. I've
> looked at Heroku, but really find them quite expensive.

On what basis do you say that?  Heroku is pretty cheap for what you get 
IMHO.  And its free plan is one of the few such options for Rails.

> My budget is
> around $50-70 USD / month. And possibly on a VPS or semi-managed
> server.

Heroku or Slicehost.  Done.

> 
> Im a web dev and I'd like to focus at what I do best. I really don't
> have time for sys admin stuff. I'd like to have a server up and
> running to serve my web files why I work on web projects
> 
> So far, I am considering Knownhost and/or Wiredtree (which are also
> semi-fully managed web host providers).
> 

Never heard of either one.

> Anyone have had any experience with other reliable web hosts, worth
> mentioning?
> 
> Some have suggested Linode. Although, this is a non-managed web host.

Heroku is the only managed solution I know of that does Rails well. 
Otherwise, just set up a VPS at Slicehost or Linode.  It's not terribly 
difficult, and Slicehost in particular has great documentation.

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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Hi,

I found an excellent tutorial about what to listen in Rails hosting:
http://www.railshosting.org/
(for example Git, gems, versions, stuff should be also Rails
developers, etc.).

Check these:
http://www.railshostinginfo.com/
to compare them.

For your budget I suggest this:
http://www.hostingrails.com/
it has many additional feature, whole you do not have to pay attention
to sysadmin stuff, only developing itself. And easy tutorials how to
deploy.

Let me know if you have further question,
Good luck,
gezope

On szept. 1, 06:28, Christian Fazzini <christian.fazz...@gmail.com>

Hi all,

I suggest Linode's non-managed, vps. Cost effective, reliable, good
support. Went to it straight from managed/shared hosting, and never
looked back.
You should easily find blogposts for getting started on linode with
rails.

good luck!