# Help with hosting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-hosting/109170>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 12, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-hosting/109170 "2007-07-12T04:04:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DBC_User)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-hosting/109170/1 "2007-07-12T04:04:12Z")

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I am a windows developer and I am able to develop and test my RoR apps  
with webricks good. But the hosting company I choose was Linux based  
and when I moved the app nothing worked bacause of the path of ruby  
and gem etc.,

I have 2 questions,

1. is there any hosting companies host RoR on windows?
2. How you guys handle development, testing in Windows and production  
in Linux??

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DBC_User)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-hosting/109170/2 "2007-07-12T08:17:05Z")

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Switching from Windows to Linux shouldn’t be a problem codewise. The  
only difficult thing is deploying it to a web server. Take a look at  
Litespeed ([http://www.litespeedtech.com](http://www.litespeedtech.com)) for an easy deployment on  
Linux. Also take a look at [http://www.railshostinginfo.com](http://www.railshostinginfo.com) to look for a  
Windows based Rails hosting company.

Kind regards,

Nick

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**Author:** ![DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DBC_User)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-hosting/109170/3 "2007-07-12T08:38:24Z")

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I use Win (XP) and Linux (Ubuntu) in parallel for development and  
testing of RoR applications.  
Some tools are Linux specific but not the core ones.  
The combination that I use is Appache+Mongrel witch enables me to be  
hosted on both OS.  
I prefer production hosting on Linux because it seams more natural,  
most open source applications are natively Linux origin and have  
better performance on it.  
Also the Windows hosting is a more expensive in correlation to Linux  
based.  
Try to be on the both sides - you never know what your client  
requirements will be.

On Jul 12, 8:17 am, Nick S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@DBC\_User](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/DBC_User)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-hosting/109170/4 "2007-07-12T16:44:31Z")

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On Jul 12, 1:17 am, Nick S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Thank you very much and following link at one of the hosting company  
has one of the best documentation on how to go about migrating from  
windows to linux.

[http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/wiki\_thread/1](http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/wiki_thread/1)