# \[ANN\] New site to compare Rails hosting companies **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 8, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-to-compare-rails-hosting-companies/81376 "2007-01-08T17:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicksnels)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-to-compare-rails-hosting-companies/81376/1 "2007-01-08T17:00:50Z")
Hi, I need the help of the Rails community. I have just launched a new website to compare and review Ruby on Rails hosting companies, [http://www.railshostinginfo.com](http://www.railshostinginfo.com). This site is created out of pure frustation. I have literally spend days searching and comparing possible hosting companies to host my Rails projects. It is really hard to find good information about the various hosting companies. And even more so on their capabilities of hosting Rails. It is impossible for me to test them all. So I need your help! Do you know a good Rails hosting company, please suggest it at the site. I have already added some fine Ruby on Rails hosting companies, so you get an idea of the end product. If you have an opinion about the companies that are already added, please post your review. And help to make it a little easier for others to choose a good Rails hosting company. All help and comments are welcome. Thanks. Kind regards, Nick ---
**Author:** ![nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicksnels)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-to-compare-rails-hosting-companies/81376/2 "2007-01-08T17:29:18Z")
Nick S. wrote: > Nick Good idea, signed up and suggested one already. Would be nice to sort on attributes, i.e. disk space/bandwidth/cost etc., rather than just price. ---
**Author:** ![nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicksnels)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-to-compare-rails-hosting-companies/81376/3 "2007-01-08T17:46:21Z")
Hi Nick, I get an application error when I try to use your contact form Daniel ---
**Author:** ![nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicksnels)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-to-compare-rails-hosting-companies/81376/4 "2007-01-08T21:07:54Z")
At Scott: Thanks Scott for the suggestion, I will add it within a few minutes. By the way it is possible to sort on attributes, like disk space, bandwidth, etc. The sort bar is located just above the blue table header. Maybe I should integrate it in the table. What do you think? At Daniel: thanks for reporting the error. It has been fixed now. Your message got saved, so I have submitted my site to [hallwaytesting.com](http://hallwaytesting.com) and hopefully I get some good usability pointers. Be though! To all who suggested hosting companies and placed a review. Thank you. And keep them coming! Kind regards, Nick ---
**Author:** ![nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicksnels)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-to-compare-rails-hosting-companies/81376/5 "2007-01-08T21:46:48Z")
I see you’re using Solr for text search. Did you look into using Ferret at all? [http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac](http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac) Not to knock Solr ([Welcome to Apache Solr - Apache Solr](http://incubator.apache.org/solr/)), which I assume is fine, just curious since it would have saved you from running a Java servlet container on the box. - Brian ---
**Author:** ![nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@nicksnels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicksnels)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-new-site-to-compare-rails-hosting-companies/81376/6 "2007-01-08T22:44:01Z")
Hi Brian, I most certainly looked at Ferret. I used it from day one, back in 2005. Ferret was the reason I made the definite switch to Rails. I was looking for a good search engine that was comparable to Lucene, but I didn’t want to learn Java (Spring, Hibernate, …). I tested it for half a year and it worked quite nicely. But back than it was written completely in Ruby, so it was way slower than Lucene. And David was in the process of porting it completely to a C version, which resulted in no C Windows version and an alpha and later a beta status. So at that time I didn’t consider it stable enough to use it in production. Erik H. author of the Lucene in Action book posted a message to the Ferret list telling about Solr. I even posted a reply telling that using Solr was too completed because of the dependency of Java and Tomcat/Jetty. But after I had tested it, I saw its power. It is really easy to use, extremely fast and it has some nice features like caching and faceted searching and even a ruby output (instead of the default xml output). Now all my projects are based around Solr and Rails. Ferret is much more stable these days and a lot faster. David has done a really good job. So if you aren’t into Java, are you like to keep it simple, Ferret is the way to go. Kind regards, Nick