Are there any RoR hosting sites that have terabytes of disk space
available?
Most of the hosting sites that I have seen only allow between 5 MB and
500 MB.
On 03 Apr 2007, at 00:29, Geo P. wrote:
Are there any RoR hosting sites that have terabytes of disk space
available?Most of the hosting sites that I have seen only allow between 5 MB and
500 MB.
I thought April 1st was 2 days ago already 
I don’t want to sound rude or inpolite, and I have no idea what
you’re up to, but if you can’t answer this question yourself, you
won’t be able to setup a configuration like this yourself. It would
involve setting up a clustered environment of dedicated servers,
where your Rails app would actually be hosted on one box, leaving the
data serving up to a balancer, serving your files transparently from
vast number of servers, which in total could serve terabytes of data.
You’ve probably heard of the generous diskspace/bandwidth offerings
from Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/) and I don’t know how good
they are in terms of hosting Rails apps. I have always found shared
hosts to be good enough for small, low traffic apps, but not ready
for high traffic/processor intensive/versatile Rails apps. At one
point, you’ll need to have root access (or sudo rights) to tweak your
setup.
Shared hosting also has the (in my view biggest) disadvantage of you
being dependent on both the hosting support for any server problem/
upgrade (and they never fix it as fast as you yourself could on a
dedicated box and do upgrades even if you didn’t ask for them, and in
my case, mostly during Belgian business hours) and other users on the
same box (one of them hits digg or is subject to a vulnerability
attack and your site dies with it).
But if you want to host huge files and serve them through a web
application, I think there are environments better suited for this
than Rails. You are trying to use Rails for the things it’s not
really good at and the stuff it excels at are hardly used.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
Peter De Berdt wrote:
You’ve probably heard of the generous diskspace/bandwidth offerings
from Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/) and I don’t know how good
they are in terms of hosting Rails apps.
I just went to their site, and their top package seems to allow 413.5 GB
of disk storage (Shared Hosting - Fast & Secure - 24/7 Support - DreamHost).
Anyone else?
I don’t know why lots_of_storage == cluster. Amazon S3 is an extremely
good
and cost-effective way to warehouse terabytes of storage. However, it
really
isn’t clear what the OP is trying to do beyond locating a solution that
meets his projected storage requirement.
I sympathize with his predicament, as I once had to (in the pre-S3 days)
scour the planet for someone that would sell me a modest amount of
server
power with a boatload of attached storage. It’s not a typical
requirement
and finding the right provider can be hard.
With S3, you decouple your storage provider from the hosting service
who’s
responsible for serving up pages.
Peter De Berdt wrote:
I thought April 1st was 2 days ago already
from Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/) and I don’t know how good
same box (one of them hits digg or is subject to a vulnerability
–
View this message in context:
http://www.nabble.com/RoR-Hosting-w--Terabytes-of-Disk-Space--tf3508661.html#a9800968
Sent from the RubyOnRails Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Contact them about getting a SAN.
Problem solved.
-carl
On 4/2/07, s.ross [email protected] wrote:
and finding the right provider can be hard.
won’t be able to setup a configuration like this yourself. It would
point, you’ll need to have root access (or sudo rights) to tweak your
application, I think there are environments better suited for this–
View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RoR-Hosting-w--Terabytes-of-Disk-Space--tf3508661.html#a9800968
Sent from the RubyOnRails Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
–
EPA Rating: 3000 Lines of Code / Gallon (of coffee)
Hello Geo.
I noticed your post and would prefer to respond off list, but do not
have an email to do so.
It just so happens I know of a service that can help you out. 
–
– Tom M., CTO
– Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting
– Reliability, Ease of Use, Scalability
– (866) 518-YARD (9273)
Have a look at http://www.railshostinginfo.com for a rundown of some
more Rails hosting companies.
Kind regards,
Nick