# RoR Hosting w/ Terabytes of Disk Space? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 3, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919 "2007-04-03T00:29:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geopappas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919/1 "2007-04-03T00:29:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geopappas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919/2 "2007-04-03T00:54:58Z")
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/](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 ---
**Author:** ![geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geopappas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919/3 "2007-04-03T01:19:20Z")
Peter De Berdt wrote: > You’ve probably heard of the generous diskspace/bandwidth offerings > from Dreamhost ([http://www.dreamhost.com/](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](http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html)). Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geopappas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919/4 "2007-04-03T01:25:00Z")
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/](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](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](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geopappas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919/5 "2007-04-03T02:05:03Z")
[www.layeredtech.com](http://www.layeredtech.com). Contact them about getting a SAN. Problem solved. -carl On 4/2/07, s.ross [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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](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](http://Nabble.com). > > > – EPA Rating: 3000 Lines of Code / Gallon (of coffee) ---
**Author:** ![geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geopappas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919/6 "2007-04-03T02:39:05Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b19c9b/32.png) [@geopappas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/geopappas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-hosting-w-terabytes-of-disk-space/90919/7 "2007-04-03T08:42:04Z")
Have a look at [http://www.railshostinginfo.com](http://www.railshostinginfo.com) for a rundown of some more Rails hosting companies. Kind regards, Nick