rails hosting

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Permalink Reply by Greg Hester on November 20, 2008 at 3:23pm

Hi Rob,

I use BlueHost.com and they support Rails. I must confess that I'm not deployed anything to them yet that is a Rails application but it appears to be all setup and ready to go. Also, they have some pretty attractive pricing $6.95 per month and unlimited storage. GoDaddy.com also supports Rails for about the same price but not with the unlimited storage.

Permalink Reply by Scott Murphy on November 20, 2008 at 3:56pm

I've tried to deploy in bluehost.com about a year ago and would personally would not recommend it. It's possible but it was a headache to get things working.

I use hostingrails.com for my small rails apps and found them to be pretty good. I think their fastcgi account starts at $8/month.

Permalink Reply by Seth Ladd on March 10, 2009 at 12:46pm

Sorry I'm a bit late to this discussion. But,

- dreamhost is a pretty good option
- only find hosts that use Passenger Phusion (do NOT use fast cgi)

Of course, everything is relative to what you're will to spend. Slicehost is a great option for a VPS, but Dreamhost is fine for a shared site.

Permalink Reply by Ken Mayer on April 3, 2009 at 11:10am

Greg Hester said:

Hi Rob,

GoDaddy.com also supports Rails for about the same price but not with the unlimited storage.

GoDaddy is a pain. They don't allow shell access, so you can't run migrations. Download and then uploading migrated data from your dev system is okay when you're data set is small, but what if it's a couple gigs? FAIL.

Permalink Reply by Nizwer Husain on April 8, 2009 at 9:19pm

I have signed up for Rails hosting with lunarpages.com (shared hosting). The only complaint I have is that it does not easily support multiple Rails applications. Have to learn how to do that before I can post an opinion. For the initial application setup I had to get the admins involved before I got a sample app up and running. Whatever I develop on my laptop I have to make some changes to the paths before I push it to the server. Have to learn how to minimize that or eliminate it completely with proper configuration (equivalent of a Java war file perhaps).

Permalink Reply by Timothy Little on April 11, 2009 at 1:08pm

I know this is late for you but in case others need to know about hosting...

I've recently deployed multiple rails projects to hostingrails.com. For about $6/month you can have multiple rails apps on fast cgi. For a little more you can add a mongrel cluster. They have great tech support and a scalable plan to let you upgrade as you go need/desire.

There are currently running 2.3.2 as their with many of the latest gems installed but they do allow/support running on any version of rails and gems frozen into your app. They provide trac support and subversion repository (single-user unless you pay more).

Permalink Reply by Seth Ladd on April 11, 2009 at 1:59pm

I really, really recommend staying FAR FAR away from fast cgi. I'm surprised it's supported at in Rails. Phusion Passenger (aka mod_rails) is the shared hosting solution that you want. I know Dreamhost supports mod_rails. I'm sure there are others, too.

Permalink Reply by Fred Baclig on April 11, 2009 at 2:18pm

Google heroku and mor.ph labs. It's the GAE equivalent for Ruby. They both offer free basic accounts just like GAE.

Permalink Reply by Seth Ladd on April 11, 2009 at 6:52pm

That's a great point. Heroku also has a great deployment process. Very quick and automated.