# Looking for advice on deploying a small site **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [August 23, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-advice-on-deploying-a-small-site/112828 "2007-08-23T17:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/combas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-advice-on-deploying-a-small-site/112828/1 "2007-08-23T17:22:32Z")
A friend has asked me if I could setup a very basic website with some forums. It will only have about a dozen images or so and user base of 100 people or less. I plan on using RForum to create about a dozen forums spread over 3 categories and have 1 main page for user login. I am basically trying to keep it as simple and concise as possible, nothing fancy. The development part I think I can handle okay, but I am kind of lost when approaching the question of deployment. I want it to be as easy as possible to get setup so I can focus on actually developing. So my question is, for a site this small would just straight Mongrel work okay? I have had limited experience setting up Mongrel with Typo but that was just out of curiosity, and I did use the apache proxy approach but was basically just following tutorials and hacking around until it magically worked and would like to avoid that this time. My second question is more of a request for hosting suggestions. Right now I am looking at [railsplayground.com](http://railsplayground.com). They have $5/mo service which allow you to host rails apps using Mongrel (I am guessing they also use apache in front of mongrel). I want to be able to develop/deploy this on a linux virtual machine and then once its working just retrace my steps on the actual host. Thanks, -AC ---
**Author:** ![combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@combas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/combas)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-advice-on-deploying-a-small-site/112828/2 "2007-08-26T22:36:04Z")
Alex, For a small RForum site you should be fine using FastCGI or a small mongrel cluster. As your site grows you may want to consider moving up to a VPS. If you have any questions about what we offer at RailsPlayground please feel free to contact us. – Joe C. > **[RailsPlayground.com Ruby On Rails Hosting](https://railsplayground.com/)** > > Ruby on Rails Web Hosting starting at just $5/a month Sales Line: 1-800-603-4125 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid