# RoR and GoDaddy **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 4, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-and-godaddy/70937 "2006-10-04T03:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-and-godaddy/70937/1 "2006-10-04T03:03:10Z")
Has anyone had any experience with setting up a rails site on GoDaddy? I’m looking at the $6.99/month package for a small, low-traffic site. How was their support? Are their servers stable? Are there any gotchas I need to be advised of in regards to database access, caching, etc. ? Thanks, Will * * * How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! MessengerÂ?s low PC-to-Phone call rates. ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-and-godaddy/70937/2 "2006-10-04T03:23:58Z")
I had a horrible time trying to get a RoR site up on GoDaddy - others have had more success, but all-in-all I think if you search the forum you’ll find several threads of much better recommendations. I’m not going to make a recommendation because, well - those threads are out there and why repeat ourselves yet again. I just wanted to answer your point-blank question about GD. 🙂 c. Will G. wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with setting up a rails site on GoDaddy? > I’m looking at the $6.99/month package for a small, low-traffic site. > How was their support? Are their servers stable? Are there any gotchas I > need to be advised of in regards to database access, caching, etc. ? > > Thanks, > Will > > * * * > > How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! MessengerÂ?s low PC-to-Phone call > rates. ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-and-godaddy/70937/3 "2006-10-04T03:41:13Z")
What particular problems did you encounter? Cayce B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: I had a horrible time trying to get a RoR site up on GoDaddy - others have had more success, but all-in-all I think if you search the forum you’ll find several threads of much better recommendations. I’m not going to make a recommendation because, well - those threads are out there and why repeat ourselves yet again. I just wanted to answer your point-blank question about GD. 🙂 c. Will G. wrote: > How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! MessengerÂ?s low PC-to-Phone call > rates. – Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). (What is best in life?) To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women. - Conan the Barbarian * * * Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We’ll help. Yahoo! Small Business. ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-and-godaddy/70937/4 "2006-10-04T12:02:09Z")
On 04 Oct 2006, at 04:41, Cayce B. wrote: > was a painless affair. > Indeed, A2hosting’s support is top notch, very responsive, very > helpful and as long as your site doesn’t need to cope with high > traffic or memory intensive tasks, they’re great and cheap. I do have some problems with A2hosting. One of my apps running at a2hosting uses send\_file to send an mp3 file (ranging between 3-10 MB) and after about 10 downloads, an “Failed to allocate memory” message pops up or the mongrel is terminated. I think this is caused by the combination of freezing the rails gem in the vendor’s directory (I had to do this, because otherwise the acts\_as\_attachment plugin fails to load and the mongrel fails to start properly) and having to use “:streaming =\> false” (if I don’t, every download just kills the mongrel without any error reporting). All I’m saying is: if you have a low profile site, a2hosting is a great shared host, if your site has to handle file downloads and you have the cash, go for a VPS from Rimuhosting. Best regards Peter De Berdt ---
**Author:** ![hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hotgazpacho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hotgazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-and-godaddy/70937/5 "2006-10-04T04:41:49Z")
I went the godaddy route for a cheap alternative to my pre-RoR usual hoster, which was (and still is) trying to get up and running with RoR functionality on their servers. I uploaded my application but could not get it to run on it’s own. I was a noob (still am) so my attempts to make it work were all over the board - messed around with the cgi scripts, permissions, locations of my files, environment.rb settings, etc. I mean - I tried everything I could think of, asked some questions here, back to the drawing board, lather, rinse, repeat. In the end, I believe I got fastcgi configured and had it running, but when I would make changes and upload them, I could not get them to show up. I understood that fcgi stays resident and I needed it to “reload”. There is a utility in their config manager to restart the fcgi daemon, but that never seemed to work for me. What would happen is that each morning I would come to my app, and the changes that I couldn’t get to show up the night before would be there. So some sort of nightly reset, or just time to trigger a cache expiration - I don’t know. All I do know is that I was frustrated to the point of kicking the nearest dog. After three days of dicking around with it part-time (have a day job) I went to the rails wiki and picked the first site I saw that looked good with a cheap month-to-month cost. It happened to be A2hosting. I had my application uploaded and running 10 minutes after I got access to my account, and have not looked back since, though I’ve heard great things here about several other hosters. A2 set up Mongrel for me - again, it was a painless affair. So, in the end it was maybe, and quite likely, my noobiness that was doing me in, at GoDaddy. Someone here very likely in retrospect or through experience could pinpoint the problem I was having. But, at the time I couldn’t get an answer, tried something else, and the sheer EASE with which it all went on the other host nailed it for me. c. Will G. wrote: > What particular problems did you encounter? > > Cayce B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I had a horrible time trying to get a RoR site up on GoDaddy - others > have had more success, but all-in-all I think if you search the forum > you’ll find several threads of much better recommendations. > > I’m not going to make a recommendation because, well - those threads are > out there and why repeat ourselves yet again. I just wanted to answer > your point-blank question about GD. > > 🙂 > > c. > > Will G. wrote: > > > How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! MessengerÂ?s low PC-to-Phone call > > rates. > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > (What is best in life?) To crush your enemies, see them driven before > you, and to hear the lamentations of the women. - Conan the Barbarian > > * * * > > Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We’ll help. Yahoo! Small > Business.