Hosting for rails

[sudirman hassan]

Hi all,

I'm going to host a rails app for a client. Is there any recommended
reliable and affordable vps hosting in Malaysia or overseas?
Preferabbly malaysia-based because the client is gov agency.

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[Namor]

Think this is a very important question for everyone :)

What's the budget like?

Anyone know the best hosting for rails that hassle free and really
reliable? :P
(Important to be fast for Malaysian conn as well so i think Amazon S3
is out! :( )

[ca...@mcoba.org]

As for me, I've purchase a 1U server from Dell (2-CPU dual core and 1GB RAM) from Dell for RM5k, and I parked it at Skali IDC for RM350 per month. It's currently working to serve a number of sites. We'll install apache mod-rails soon and will start hosting our own Rails app.

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[Kamal Fariz]

I've had excellent performance from 3gohost. Starts from RM99/mo for
256MB.

Regards,
Kamal

[sudirman hassan]

I am not sure how good the vps i need. my client users maybe around 20
person, but concurrently maybe at most 5 person.

I saw linode vps (linode.com), at 360MiB RAM 10GB storage and 200GiB
data transfer/m at USD 19.95 (or around rm6+ per month). Will it be a
good choice?

yes, local vps mostly start at rm99.

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-- deman

[sudirman hassan]

Hosting rails app still a black box for me.. not like php where you
can just ftp-ied and everything runs..

I;m now thinking of exabytes linux ebiz gold. If I freeze:rails and
also gem:unpack everyhting to vendor/gems, will it works?

I don;t know memory requirement of rails app on production? will 64MB
suffice for the load that i mentioned below?

tq

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-- deman

[Kamal Fariz]

That's shared hosting. Unless they are using mod_rails, fcgi is going
to suck. If none of your gems require compilation, with recent edge
rails you can unpack the gems in vendor.

In comparison, for a VPS, i find 256MB is just about hitting the
ceiling at 80% usage with 2 thin appservers, 1 nginx webserver/load
balancer, 1 mysql, monit, workling. Even then I already eat into the
swap space every now and then. You may be able to save around 60MB by
just running 1 app server.

If you already have some sort of hosting available to you, like say
your dept's windows server, ask if you can host a vmware/virtualbox
linux image on there.

Regards,
Kamal

[sudirman hassan]

I've signed up with linode. I setup Ubuntu 8.04 server. Used mod_rails.

Will report back the performance later.

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-- deman