I’m looking for a Rails hoster that supports my needs.
To sum up the important ones:
SSH access
mongrel support
multiple subversion repositories with trac
mysql support
statistics (webalizer/awstats/mrtg/rrdtool)
rmagick support
webdav support
responsive techsupport
not too expensive ( ~$10-$15/month max)
And less important, it would be a plus if it’s European (better latency
for me)
and SQLite support would be a plus too.
I know there are quite a few threads about Rails hosting already, but I
can’t seem to find one that suits my needs. It doesn’t need to be
ultrafast and I don’t generate much traffic, it’s just for development
and testing purposes.
I had problems with dreamhost (very slow, support was pretty bad, down
twice
during the 1 month I held my account). Main problem was the fact that
the
databases were on a different server than the site, and the database
server
was SLOOOOOOOOW. They said they were aware and are working on it. I did
some
googling and found people complaining about the same thing about a year
earlier-- I wasn’t going to hold my breath.
Switched to site5… a little more expensive and I’m not a huge fan of
how
they handle their user accounts (it would be kind of unprofessional if
you
were to host sites for clients and had to give them FTP access, since
the
access is like userid@yourid or something like that). Other than that,
the
server has been great, no downtime at all that I’ve noticed… servers
are
very fast and the support is responsive and helpful. I would recommend,
although as of now I dont’ believe they support mongrel.