Rails Hosting

[Jazmin]

This has probably been asked many many times but we are looking to host a non-profit small Rails 3 app, the budget is about $20-25/month. the number of concurrent expected users in the beginning is rather low. besides the rails app there might be also need to host other php web sites such as wordpress.

I think at this point the research gave us 3 candidates.

-Linode

-Slice Host

-HostingRails

Can anybody offer some input about this? We greatly appreciated. 

[jason white]

for Rails hosting, give heroku a try.

 

if you want to host Rails and PHP, I recommend Linode. But you will need to administer the server yourself.

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[jiblethead]

> > This has probably been asked many many times but we are looking to host a
> > non-profit small Rails 3 app, the budget is about $20-25/month. the number
> > of concurrent expected users in the beginning is rather low. besides the
> > rails app there might be also need to host other php web sites such as
> > wordpress.
>
> > I think at this point the research gave us 3 candidates.
> > -Linode
> > -Slice Host
> > -HostingRails
>

I can only say good things about Heroku for a low-cost/no-cost
solution to Rails hosting. Great git integration, and has worked well
for me over the past year.

[Daniel Nachbar]

I'm a big fan of Heroku as well.

Another option, although they aren't specifically rails-oriented, is dreamhost.com

Pros -
- Cheap -- Unlimited domains (excluding registration) bandwidth, storage,
  shell accounts, email addresses, mailing lists, etc all for under $10/month.
  (They also have occasional first-year-free offers.)
- Free hosting for 501(c)3 charities.
- Very spiffy web-based control panel
- A broad range of preloaded software and 1-click installs offered.
- Rails available via Apache/Passenger. (NOT a 1-click install)
- VERY reliable. (I know, I shouldn't say that ... tempting the gods and all that.)
  They are a fairly "grown up" company - 300K customers on 4K servers.
- Free two week trial.

Cons -
- Default configuration supports ruby 1.8.7 and rails 3.0.9 only.
- No customer access to the system-wide error logs.
   i.e. silent failure on config/start-up errors.  Once your process is
   up and running your logfiles will work.  But if the error is early enough
   (e.g. syntax error in a config file) you have to contact tech support
   and ask them to look at the error output for you.  So type carefully.
- PostgreSQL not supported. (They say "maybe someday".)
- Mediocre system documentation.
- Bare-bones tech support in general and for ruby/rails in particular.
  And if you stray from their ruby/rails defaults you are completely on your own.

So if you have a bunch of domains, not so much money, and are comfortable
on the *nix command line, they are worth looking at.

But if you want to keep things simple, go with Heroku.

Dan Nachbar

[Matt Harrison]

I just wanted to say that I've been with linode for a while now. Yes you have to
manage things yourself but that can be a bonus in many situations. They've recently
added a very cheap load balancing system too.

In addition, their tech support is the best I have ever needed. I submitted a ticket a
few days ago, had a reply within 4 minutes. The entire ticket was resolved within 15
minutes and I wasn't left waiting for a reply at any point. They really seem to know
what they're talking about and take on board suggestions/feedback.