# Hosts with just Ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosts-with-just-ruby/154067>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosts-with-just-ruby/154067 "2008-11-25T01:21:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosts-with-just-ruby/154067/1 "2008-11-25T01:21:44Z")

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I’m looking to host a simple, cheap, website, and since all hosts have  
PHP, i’ll probably end up using that.

But, are there any hosts that allow for Ruby (not Rails). I would think  
that Ruby alone wouldn’t cost very much. I would much rather use that  
than PHP.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosts-with-just-ruby/154067/2 "2008-11-25T01:28:34Z")

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Kyle M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I’m looking to host a simple, cheap, website, and since all hosts have  
> PHP, i’ll probably end up using that.
> 
> But, are there any hosts that allow for Ruby (not Rails). I would think  
> that Ruby alone wouldn’t cost very much. I would much rather use that  
> than PHP.

They do exist alright, I have seen a lot of tutorials for getting  
arbitrary ruby frameworks  
hosted on dreamhost/passenger etc. Can’t recall any off hand, but I  
think dream host are  
offering solutions in that space.

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**Author:** ![kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@kylemathews](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kylemathews)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hosts-with-just-ruby/154067/3 "2008-11-26T06:08:01Z")

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:17:12AM +0900, Kyle M. wrote:

> I’m looking to host a simple, cheap, website, and since all hosts have  
> PHP, i’ll probably end up using that.
> 
> But, are there any hosts that allow for Ruby (not Rails). I would think  
> that Ruby alone wouldn’t cost very much. I would much rather use that  
> than PHP.
> 
> Thank you.

Accounts at many shared hosting providers that offer Rails can also be  
used for eruby and Ruby/CGI, if you want Ruby without the Rails.  
Bluehost is one, for instance, and the Bluehost help system even offers  
instructions on how to get eruby working so you can have use very  
PHP-like embedded code for templating purposes.