Ruby on Rails hosting in South Africa

[Francois van der Hoven]

Dear Ruby Brigade,

I am a Ruby on Rails Developer in Brisbane, Australia who is building a web application for people in Hekpoort. I would love to use a South African company for hosting my Rails 4 web application. I am developing on an Apple Mac and I am using a PostgreSQL database. 

Can anybody recommend a South African company(ies) with experience in hosting Rails applications?

Thank you in advance!

Francois

e. francoisv...@gmail.com

[Andre Sachs]

Hi Francois,

You can try http://www.cloudafrica.net/pricing, either Solaris Zones or KVM based Linux/FreeBSD hosts.

Regards

  Andre

PS. Disclaimer I work at CloudAfrica.

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[Kenneth Kalmer]

Hi Francois

Can second Andre's suggestion to use CloudAfrica. I don't work for CloudAfrica, but I have "insider knowledge" and know you'll be in good hands.

Best

[Ryan Mes]

We use 

http://www.hetzner.co.za

It's not the cloud, but it does the job.

[ivor...@gmail.com]

+1 for Hetzner. Haven't used cloudafrica.

[Jean le Roux]

Hi Francois

I have used both Hetzner and Cloudafrica and regrettably can not recommend either. 

I have to say that I used CA over 2 years ago, and they were not quite ready for action from what I could tell (no iptables on the instances, for one). Hopefully the situation is much improved by now. 

My problem with Hetzner lies with their customer service, not their infrastructure. We had continuous problems with (their) failure to process payments, leading to production environments being switched off.

I can tell you we use Digital ocean near exclusively for hosting apps. The connectivity to London or Amsterdam is quite decent and you will not notice any appreciable service impact. Plus, Digital Ocean is one of the best hosting companies I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with, both in terms of offering and service.

Linode is another option, and their latest revision of products are competitive with what DO is offering. They also have a UK footprint iirc. I've used Linode for many years and they are good, just not always competitively priced.

Jean le Roux

phone: +27 84 606 5950
twitter: @elarex
skype: jeanlrx77

[Tom Bamford]

Hi Francois

I'm a CloudAfrica customer and very happy with their service. Hosting a couple of my clients there. Network performance can be a little lacklustre on the smallest instances but not restrictively so. Of course, Digital Ocean and Linode also offer great service (I use them both) although not local companies and their closest footprints are in Europe.

Hetzner (hetzner.co.za) are unquestionably the best in South Africa for physical server hosting; facilities, infrastructure, service, pricing all excellent. You will need to get a self-managed dedicated server though for hosting RoR, perhaps too costly for a single client.

I would caution against some of the larger ISPs such as AfriHost (they use VMware and have a history of terrible outages) and MWEB (known for bad customer service).

Disclaimer: I used to work for Hetzner.

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[Robert Fall]

I second avoiding Afrihost. I've had a small instance running with them hosting personal sites, mostly static, with one rails application. Doesn't have much traffic so it runs just fine. They have had a lot of intermittent downtime. 

I've moved the instance over to DigitalOcean at a fifth of the price. Granted I didn't know about CloudAfrica's offerings at the time and I'll probably move there when I get back to South Africa for the local latency advantage.

tl;dr Try DigitalOcean or CloudAfrica

[Andre Mouton]

Hi Francois,

Just heard about this now, not used it yet. Might be worth investigating: http://www.rsaweb.co.za/hosting/flex-cloud/

According to the website: 

A highly scalable hosting platform for PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, Node.js & .NET Web Applications.

Regards,

Andre Mouton

On 23 January 2015 at 17:18, Francois van der Hoven <francoisv...@gmail.com> wrote:

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