# What is a good virtual hosting service for rails that's inexpensive but scales up? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 28, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-good-virtual-hosting-service-for-rails-thats-inexpensive-but-scales-up/133120 "2008-03-28T01:55:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-good-virtual-hosting-service-for-rails-thats-inexpensive-but-scales-up/133120/1 "2008-03-28T01:55:30Z")
What is a good virtual hosting service for rails that starts off inexpensive but can be scaled up? I like the slicehost model, but on the slicehost signup they say we will email you your password, change it right away. This is just security incompetence: they could have me type a password into the https: web form where I type my credit card number. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-good-virtual-hosting-service-for-rails-thats-inexpensive-but-scales-up/133120/2 "2008-03-28T16:09:54Z")
Perhaps it’s not the best security practice, but I’ve been happy with Slice Host so far. Their articles ([articles.slicehost.com](http://articles.slicehost.com)) are a tremendous resource. -Kyle ---
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-a-good-virtual-hosting-service-for-rails-thats-inexpensive-but-scales-up/133120/3 "2008-03-28T22:23:15Z")
Use slicehost. They are great. I upgraded one of my slices the other day. It took less than 20 minutes to complete, and I had no noticable downtime. Paul