# What is the best hosting provider for an enterprise scale Rails application? **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [May 28, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-hosting-provider-for-an-enterprise-scale-rails-application/138858 "2008-05-28T13:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ivan\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@Ivan\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ivan_V)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-hosting-provider-for-an-enterprise-scale-rails-application/138858/1 "2008-05-28T13:14:06Z")
We have just finished the early stages of testing our application and are looking to roll it out to our customers in the coming weeks (approx 12000 of them), our application manages financial transactions and has a huge amount of liability involved, therefor we can’t afford it to f-ck up, our development team has spent a lot of time making it as bullet proof as possible, including building a asynchronous real- time backup of all transactions to a second rails app and mysql database run on a second server. Also all of our customers are located in Australia and so far we haven’t found any experienced hosting companies willing to provide guaranteed support if the sh!t hits the fan, so we are looking to host in the US with minimum latency as possible. Has anyone had similar experience, or know of a hosting provider that is by bar better than any other for this type of application? ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@Ivan\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ivan_V)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-the-best-hosting-provider-for-an-enterprise-scale-rails-application/138858/2 "2008-05-28T14:27:40Z")
I haven’t used them personally, but Engine Y. focuses on this sort of hosting. They’re not cheap. They’re enterprise-oriented. HTH, Bill