# Host recommdations

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/host-recommdations/131541>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 11, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/host-recommdations/131541 "2008-03-11T06:17:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/host-recommdations/131541/1 "2008-03-11T06:17:41Z")

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Hi  
I want to host a simple site with Ruby  
quickly

at first no DB - just a site that can run a Hello Ruby script  
will use a template page

Also I am very new to this so help will be need

any suggestions for a Ruby Hosting service?

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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/host-recommdations/131541/2 "2008-03-11T16:03:42Z")

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Some recommendations from a blog here:  
[http://www.softiesonrails.com/2008/2/22/where-i-host-my-rails-applications](http://www.softiesonrails.com/2008/2/22/where-i-host-my-rails-applications)

I personally like Slicehost. Heroku looks interesting as well.

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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/host-recommdations/131541/3 "2008-03-11T18:21:01Z")

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Heroku is free for now and works well. Hostingrails provides  
inexpensive and decent shared hosting. I plan on moving to Slicehost  
eventually.

You might as well try something free first! Sign up for Heroku here:

> **[Cloud Application Platform | Heroku](https://www.heroku.com/home)**
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> Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

-Kyle

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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/host-recommdations/131541/4 "2008-03-14T03:42:05Z")

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> > > On Mar 11, 1:16 am, Roger B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
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> > > > Hi  
> > > > I want to host a simple site withRuby  
> > > > quickly
> 
> > > > at first no DB - just a site that can run a HelloRubyscript  
> > > > will use a template page

You might want to see a post that Andre L. wrote recently comparing  
some cheap VPS hosting options:  
[http://earthcode.com/blog/2008/02/cheap\_rails\_vps\_options.html](http://earthcode.com/blog/2008/02/cheap_rails_vps_options.html)

Most of the cheaper hosting plans will require you to get down-and-  
dirty and do your own sys-config tasks. But there are some nice  
scripts around that will help out. Andre also wrote another post  
about using deprec at SilverRack to get his Rails app up in a few  
minutes -  
[http://earthcode.com/blog/2008/02/deprec2\_mongrel\_nginx\_rails\_my.html](http://earthcode.com/blog/2008/02/deprec2_mongrel_nginx_rails_my.html)

Regards,  
Dave  
[http://www.silverrack.com](http://www.silverrack.com)

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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/host-recommdations/131541/5 "2008-03-11T18:49:36Z")

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On 11 Mar 2008, at 17:19, Kyle wrote:

> Heroku is free for now and works well. Hostingrails provides  
> inexpensive and decent shared hosting. I plan on moving to Slicehost  
> eventually.

I’ve been using slicehost recently and I’m happy with it. The one  
thing is that you do need to do a lot of the grunt work of configuring  
the servers yourself (but they do provide loads of articles and step  
by steps on how to do that).

Fred