I thought it might be nice to have a thread about deploying on Media
Temple’s (gs) hosting plan. I’ve been using (gs) a tiny bit for
applications I toying with (I’m new to both Ruby and Rails), and I
chose them mainly because of the low prices 
I decided to start out
learning Rails by trying to deploy apps very early on in their
development because a web-app that’s only running on my localhost
isn’t much good to anybody. I suppose I could have a personal address
book or something, but you know what I mean. So, I guess I started
learning about Capistrano and Rails at the same time.
Anywhoot, I put together a Capistrano recipe that seems to work for me
on Media Temple. It is very basic, I’m sure, but it seems to work, so
I’m pretty happy! I hope somebody on this list might either find it
useful, or be able to point out a better way to do this or that.
http://www.almosteffortless.com/2007/01/28/capistrano-on-media-temple/
I’m also curious if anybody else us running heavier apps on Media
Temple, and what their experiences have been. I’ve heard that you need
mongrel_cluster (?) and that they don’t have it yet (?) but that’s
about all I know. When I signed up, I assumed that I’d be able to
upgrade my “container” if I ever needed to, and that this would
probably be enough for sites that aren’t getting tons and tons of
traffic.
- Trevor