# Swiss Hosts for Ruby on Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swiss-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails/65767>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 21, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swiss-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails/65767 "2006-08-21T09:41:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swiss-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails/65767/1 "2006-08-21T09:41:16Z")

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I have a customer in Switzerland, who would prefer a host also in  
Switzerland. Unfortunately, I cannot find anyone who offers Ruby on  
Rails. German and Amercian hosts are easy to find, but not in  
Switzerland. Does anyone know of one?

Thanks.

Keith B.

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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swiss-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails/65767/2 "2006-08-21T11:40:46Z")

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I’ve tried searching on google.ch in both English and German (can’t do  
French or Italian, sorry) and couldn’t find one. So, unless there’s a  
host which exclusively works in French and/or Italian (unlikely I  
would think), I don’t think there aren’t any.  
-N

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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swiss-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails/65767/3 "2006-08-21T15:53:28Z")

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I’m swiss and I do not know a swiss rails hoster, too. I even send some  
emails to some of the popular swiss hosting companies to ask if and  
when the going to interoduce a rails hosting plan. But unfortuantly  
never got an answer from any of them. So I guess rails is a taboo or  
whatever to swiss hosters. That’s why I chosed a american one. It’s  
much cheaper anyway.

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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swiss-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails/65767/4 "2006-08-22T15:06:15Z")

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Why exactly does your customer want a Swiss host? Is it for  
“patriotic” reasons, or do they think it’ll be quicker? If they think  
it’s going to be quicker, you should let them know that with an  
American host the difference would be negligeable and with a German  
host, it would be pretty much impossible to measure a difference.  
But, if using a swiss host is really important to them, tell them that  
you could do it in RoR on an American host at quarter of the cost or  
go back to Java/PHP/.NET, making it far more expensive. See what they  
say then.  
-Nathan

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**Author:** ![islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ac8455/32.png) [@islepilot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/islepilot)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/swiss-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails/65767/5 "2006-08-22T17:08:45Z")

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Well, there is [http://www.swisscenter.ch](http://www.swisscenter.ch)

They are really efficient!

Nauhaie