# Hosting Companies **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [March 28, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359 "2007-03-28T03:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/1 "2007-03-28T03:27:43Z")
Hello folks, I recently signed a customer and they were terrified to know that their Rails app was going to be hosted on the hosting co whom with I do most biz (don’t wish to mention who they are). Now…I’ve heard SliceHost and MediaTemple are really good…I’d like to know if any of you has an account with them and if you’ve had any problems with either of them? Your answers are much appreciated. Best, Ruben ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/2 "2007-03-28T04:55:50Z")
I love my new SliceHost account, especially after I got the deprec gem to work. Highly recommended - inexpensive, solid hosting. Sean ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/3 "2007-03-28T06:02:56Z")
Hi Ruben, I’ve got an account on slicehost and I have been very happy with them. My site seems pretty fast and I have not had any outages yet. I’m a big fan. However, you should know that you are setting up a server from a very minimal install and you have to add everything yourself. I’m running Ubuntu so some time with apt-get got me up and running but this is NOT like installing a distro on your home computer. I had to add developer tools (compilers, etc), setup sudo, and apt-get did not get me a usable ruby-rails-postgresql environment. When I installed everything from source, I was up and running and it has been very solid ever since. I would recommend them but it might take a little while to setup your environment initially. HTH, Brian ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/4 "2007-03-28T13:09:55Z")
You can add my vote for slicehost too. Very solid and reliable from my experience, definitely no overloaded servers and it’s really simple to set up new slices or rebuild them. Kevin ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/5 "2007-03-28T20:38:14Z")
I use VPSLink and Ubuntu. I followed the instructions here: http:// [richarddcrowley.org/blog/view/101](http://richarddcrowley.org/blog/view/101) to get RoR up and running and then got Radiant Mental out of the SVN repository. As far as VPSLink service… they have had one outage, but have been fine since then. I have 2 machines with them. I recommend them because they have a Wiki and Forum which seem to both be actively frequented by the VPSLink staff and users. The other thing that is nice is you can use their DNS servers to point to other websites / machines! [http://vpslink.com](http://vpslink.com) Colin ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/6 "2007-03-28T11:50:47Z")
Wow, Slicehost looks really interesting. Thanks for the heads up! – Sander de Goeij removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/7 "2007-03-28T21:19:21Z")
Slice host. * * * BJ Clark the science department ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Ruben\_DSOrduz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ruben_DSOrduz)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosting-companies/90359/8 "2007-03-29T05:46:11Z")
Slicehost!