# Review of Rails web hosting services **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-of-rails-web-hosting-services/85003 "2007-02-09T05:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hendy_I)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-of-rails-web-hosting-services/85003/1 "2007-02-09T05:19:49Z")
Hi guys, If you’re in need of or considering a web hosting service for Rails, check this out: [http://web2withrubyonrails.gauldong.net/rails-hosting/](http://web2withrubyonrails.gauldong.net/rails-hosting/) Should you want to add your own experience and/or favorites, feel free to do so. 🙂 Hope this helps someone. – Hendy I. Web: [http://hendy.gauldong.net](http://hendy.gauldong.net) Mobile: +62 856 24889899 Yahoo Messenger: ceefour666 LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ceefour](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ceefour) ---
**Author:** ![Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hendy_I)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-of-rails-web-hosting-services/85003/2 "2007-02-09T05:43:51Z")
Hendy I. wrote: > …aww, you didn’t review us. :-p Robby – Robby R. [http://www.robbyonrails.com/](http://www.robbyonrails.com/) > **[Planet Argon](https://www.planetargon.com/)** > > Planet Argon is a Ruby on Rails development agency specializing in maintenance and support for existing Rails apps. Based in Portland, OR, Planet Argon has been a member of the Rails community since 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hendy_I)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-of-rails-web-hosting-services/85003/3 "2007-02-09T05:53:52Z")
Dear Robby, On 2/9/07, Robby R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > …aww, you didn’t review us. :-p > > Robby My bad… 🙂 I knew about Planet Argon a long time ago actually, it was one of the first Rails hostings (and I heard you were the first brave person running Typo on PostgreSQL :-). I was turned down of it because of cheaper offers (then went with HostingRails, hehe, sorry but I’m just being honest). Pre-judging by the price, Planet Argon seems to be driving more on overall quality and customer happiness (not just satisfaction) rather than “impressive space/storage/etc.” Is this true? I’d like to know what sets Planet Argon apart from [cheaper] services… I’d love to add your service to my list, so you’ll help inform our community better. 🙂 – Hendy I. Web: [http://hendy.gauldong.net](http://hendy.gauldong.net) Mobile: +62 856 24889899 Yahoo Messenger: ceefour666 LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ceefour](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ceefour) ---
**Author:** ![Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hendy_I)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-of-rails-web-hosting-services/85003/4 "2007-02-09T16:45:52Z")
I’m a customer of Robby’s. I have a rails (http:// [www.actionshootingscores.com](http://www.actionshootingscores.com)) running with a mongrel cluster behind pound and apache on PlanetArgon’s shared ion server. I also have a few trivial static html web sites there too ( hey they needed a home 🙂 ) The PanetArgon folks know rails, making it easy to communicate when there’s a tech support issue. I have been happy with the service. Most times my app runs well, even zippy. Sometimes not but this is a fact of life with shared hosting. I have had a couple of “bad neighbor problems” where another app hogs the cpu, slowing down all others. Generally PA gets right on this but I have had one occasion when it took too long for them to deal with it. I suspect this will happen on any shared host. On the negative side, the ion server was down for a few DAYS right after Christmas - not at all good. I have tried one other host, Site5. They are great for static html sites, but my rails app just sucked there. They offer FastCGI only, no mongrel. My biggest problem was the connection to mySQL would fail and then the app was down - with way no for me to know it failed other than someone getting an http 500 error. This happened often, sometimes I could recover by killing all the fastcgi processes, other times I had to ask their tech support. They were cheaper than PlanetArgon, until you put a cost on a down app. In general, shared hosting is not a good way to run a production application that gets a lot of use. It is OK for a lightly used app. Dagny Gromer ---
**Author:** ![Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Hendy\_I](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hendy_I)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/review-of-rails-web-hosting-services/85003/5 "2007-02-09T06:07:53Z")
Hendy I. wrote: > I knew about Planet Argon a long time ago actually, it was one of the > first Rails hostings (and I heard you were the first brave person > running Typo on PostgreSQL :-). I was turned down of it because of > cheaper offers (then went with HostingRails, hehe, sorry but I’m just > being honest). > > Pre-judging by the price, Planet Argon seems to be driving more on > overall quality and customer happiness (not just satisfaction) rather > than “impressive space/storage/etc.” Is this true? Exactly. Rails hosting shouldn’t fall into the same cheap php hosting environment. Tons of storage isn’t going to solve your Rails deployment problems. If you need more disk space, we can always customize a package… but actually recommend that you find yourself a cheap host (amazon s3 for example) for tons of disk space. If you need it for your database… you shouldn’t be looking at shared hosting anyways. I’d like to know > what sets Planet Argon apart from [cheaper] services… I’d love to add > your service to my list, so you’ll help inform our community better. > 🙂 I haven’t used the other services, but I know that we have many customers that have. Almost all of our employees are developing Rails applications on a daily basis… so we think like developers. Most of our customers… are developers. They want more control over their deployment solution, so we give it to them… because it’s what we want. as well. 😉 - [http://docs.planetargon.com/Getting\_Started](http://docs.planetargon.com/Getting_Started) We’re also huge PostgreSQL fans (I’ve been working with PostgreSQL for several years before Rails was even around…) and we let you run your own private instance of it. I don’t think most of the other rails environments give you that flexibility (currently). But, like I said. I haven’t used any other rails hosting company because we started offering hosting for Rails just over two years ago now… and I’m happy with my current provider. 😉 Robby – Robby R. [http://www.robbyonrails.com/](http://www.robbyonrails.com/) > **[Planet Argon](https://www.planetargon.com/)** > > Planet Argon is a Ruby on Rails development agency specializing in maintenance and support for existing Rails apps. Based in Portland, OR, Planet Argon has been a member of the Rails community since 2004.