# Off-topic: Rails hosting **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631 "2006-07-24T16:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/1 "2006-07-24T16:35:15Z")
All, I’ve been looking switching hosting providers, and have been strongly considering TextDrive. Doing a little Googling turns up a fair number of complaints that seem to be centered around server performance, stability and uptime. Since I know a poorly written app can contribute to all of these, I thought I’d pose the question to all of you. Does anyone here host with TextDrive? Any input, good or bad? If this is too off-topic, please feel free to reply just to me. Thanks, Sean ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/2 "2006-07-24T17:05:07Z")
Hi Sean. There’s been a bit of discussion along similar lines on this list recently. The performance is less to do with Textdrive and more that you’re sharing your server with other (often badly optimised) rails apps. A VPS seems the best solution. Personally I’m with Rimuhosting who have been very good so far, I’ve seen others recoemmend a company called Bytemark. I’m sure others on this list will have other recommendation too. Ross ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/3 "2006-07-24T17:28:32Z")
Sean B. wrote: > I’ve been looking switching hosting providers, and have been strongly > considering TextDrive. Doing a little Googling turns up a fair > number of complaints that seem to be centered around server > performance, stability and uptime. Since I know a poorly written app > can contribute to all of these, I thought I’d pose the question to > all of you. Does anyone here host with TextDrive? Any input, good > or bad? If this is too off-topic, please feel free to reply just to me. Save yourself a headache and go with a VPS. Linode, Rimuhosting, VPSLand are all good choices. I was with Textdrive for a while and it was a nightmare from day one. Not sure how anyone could say something potsitive about them. Their tech support was slow, the servers were down more than they were up, etc. And as far as the problem being people’s poorly coded Rails apps to blame — well that would be TEXTDRIVE needing to monitor and prevent those incidents rather than letting the same people haul down the server. Their solution was the typical Windows server solution: Reboot. I’ve since gone to a VPS and have been very happy. ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/4 "2006-07-27T12:35:40Z")
I have, without a doubt, been miserable on TextDrive. Worst service and support I’ve ever had. My company has _directly_ suffered due to downtime of many hours. I’m trying to pick a VPS service myself and do the switch early next week. ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/5 "2006-07-24T17:42:47Z")
If good support and stability is what you are after, look no further than RailsPlayground. Heh, I sound like a commercial. They have excellent support, and great prices. I have zero complaints. Their forums are actively monitored and they are constantly improving the service. ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/6 "2006-07-27T16:13:52Z")
Since everyone else is suggesting a VPS, I’m going to suggest Rails Machine. It’s a VPS that comes with all the basic rails necessities pre-installed (Apache, Mongrel, MySQL), as well as the powerful rails machine deploy tasks. These tasks extend capistrano and place even more constraints on the server. But, I managed to deploy my Rails Day app on it (Apache mod\_proxy\_balancer and 2 clustered mongrels) _during_ the competition in about 30 minutes by following Brad’s instructions. If you don’t go with them for whatever reason, definitely look into setting up a similar environment with the Rails Machine gems. ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/7 "2006-07-27T13:12:15Z")
Carl F. wrote: > If good support and stability is what you are after, look no further > than RailsPlayground. > > Heh, I sound like a commercial. > > They have excellent support, and great prices. I have zero complaints. > Their forums are actively monitored and they are constantly improving > the service. I second that. Best provider I’ve been with so far. And nice friendly (fast) support (did me \_'s in my subdomains). My app runs fine for me. (Funny to see though how it runs faster when america sleeps (yes I live in Europe)). Torsten ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/8 "2006-08-03T16:13:10Z")
+1 for Rimuhosting. Just make sure you know what you’re doing. ---
**Author:** ![seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@seanb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seanb)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-rails-hosting/99631/9 "2006-08-03T14:24:39Z")
And I don’t even have my Rails application up and running yet. This has been downtime for all http and ssh requests.