# Volunteers required : freeonrails.com

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/volunteers-required-freeonrails-com/111812>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 11, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/volunteers-required-freeonrails-com/111812 "2007-08-11T12:34:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![pratik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pratik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pratik)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/volunteers-required-freeonrails-com/111812/1 "2007-08-11T12:34:26Z")

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Hi,

My journey on rails started with a free hosting service -  
[http://www.freeonrails.com](http://www.freeonrails.com) around 2 years back, even though I started  
actual rails coding around a year back. I currently pay for 2 servers  
from my pocket ( dreamhost gives me some money occasionally and so do  
text link ads and google adsense ), and I’ll continue to pay for it.  
The main reason why I run the site is, I had to shut down my site in  
college as I didn’t have money to pay for bandwidth and I had no  
credit card !! So I just want to help students.

However, lately I’ve been facing real time crunches. And I really  
haven’t been able to maintain FoR for past few months. The main job  
right now, is to setup an account and help people with deploying the  
app.

I have plans ( meaning it may never even happen ) to write an  
automated account creation system using LiteSpeed. And build a front  
end for community based hosting - so that someone can post a hosting  
request, community can vote it up/down and if the person gets “n”  
positive votes, system admin can just press “approve” button to set up  
hosting account.

This may not be a simple project as it might sound. But as I want to  
open source it, it could be helpful for people looking to setup paid  
hosting service as well.

I am looking for any kind of possible help. It could be an offer to  
help in coding or may be a simple advise to guide in proper direction  
! Or may be for quick term, someone can set up and take responsibility  
of maintaining the site in it’s current state 🙂

Paypal is sweet too 😉 But it’s not really money I’m looking for right  
now.

## So if anyone’s interested, do drop me an email or you can join my empty google group at [http://groups.google.com/group/fordev](http://groups.google.com/group/fordev) and we can take it up from there.

Cheers!

- Pratik  
[http://m.onkey.org](http://m.onkey.org)