# Recommend an upmarket host

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommend-an-upmarket-host/156414>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 27, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommend-an-upmarket-host/156414 "2008-12-27T00:20:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dbc845/32.png) [@newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newbee-robert)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommend-an-upmarket-host/156414/1 "2008-12-27T00:20:11Z")

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I have limited scaling experience and I’m expending too much energy  
keeping my servers up. Fortunately now I can afford to pay more. Here’s  
what I want:

- tools to easily manage multiple servers
- tools to easily cluster my apps
- tools / people to automatically configure apache, mysql, etc.
- good built-in monitoring
- ability to ask somebody about common Rails performance issues and so  
on

I guess the default answer is Engine Y., but while I’m willing to pay  
a good bit for access to expertise, I don’t want to pay hundreds of  
dollars for each extra gig of RAM.

That leaves Rails Machine, who seems like a good fit. Who else is out  
there in that vein?

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**Author:** ![newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dbc845/32.png) [@newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newbee-robert)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommend-an-upmarket-host/156414/2 "2008-12-27T01:35:21Z")

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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Robert M.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I guess the default answer is Engine Y., but while I’m willing to pay  
> a good bit for access to expertise, I don’t want to pay hundreds of  
> dollars for each extra gig of RAM.
> 
> That leaves Rails Machine, who seems like a good fit. Who else is out  
> there in that vein?

You might consider Rails Boxcar, which is managed by my company,  
Planet Argon. We’ve been involved in Ruby on Rails hosting for nearly  
four years now and have that expertise that you’re looking for. 🙂

- [http://railsboxcar.com](http://railsboxcar.com)

Feel free to contact us and/or me directly if you have any questions.

Cheers,  
Robby

–  
Robby R.  
Chief Evangelist, Partner

PLANET ARGON, LLC  
design // development // hosting

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>
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