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Todd Warfel

2007-Mar-14 01:27 UTC

Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

We''re currently hosting on Media Temple, but their Grid Servers are
letting us down. We''ve had an average of two calls per week to them w/
reliability issues - they just keep going down for 20-30 minutes at a
time.

So, we''re looking for a reliable RoR host that we can do multi-site
hosting on. Nothing to big for now, just three blogs running Mephisto
and/or WordPress. Eventually, we''re going to have some small internal
apps that we''ll need to host on the servers. We''d also like to
be able
to stay with that hosting provider, even if we have to move to a
different type of hosting, when we start scaling our apps.

And we want it to be easy to setup out of the gate.


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PeteSalty

2007-Mar-14 01:43 UTC

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Re: Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

I''m currently using hostingrails.com - here''s my experience:

Pros:
 - resonable inexpensive
 - you get a lot for your money
 - fairly easy out the gate setup
 - good set-up/config information available in their forums
 - service is pretty fast so far but few users on my server

Cons:
 - not much help if you have a real problem - they try but responses
can be slow (we were down 3 hours last Thursday - didn''t respond to
help requests until sometime after we were back up)
 - requires a year upfront payment
 - I get the opinion they are learning as they go

So, if you want to do some simple strightforward hosting and you know
your way around cPanel then it''s probably fine. Pretty cheap, even
given yearly payment and you do get a lot for your money (at the top
end 150meg dedicated for mongrels)

On Mar 13, 5:27 pm, "Todd Warfel"
<todd.war...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> We''re currently hosting on Media Temple, but their Grid Servers
are
> letting us down. We''ve had an average of two calls per week to
them w/
> reliability issues - they just keep going down for 20-30 minutes at a
> time.
>
> So, we''re looking for a reliable RoR host that we can do
multi-site
> hosting on. Nothing to big for now, just three blogs running Mephisto
> and/or WordPress. Eventually, we''re going to have some small
internal
> apps that we''ll need to host on the servers. We''d also
like to be able
> to stay with that hosting provider, even if we have to move to a
> different type of hosting, when we start scaling our apps.
>
> And we want it to be easy to setup out of the gate.

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pauljdavis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org

2007-Mar-14 02:01 UTC

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Re: Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

I suggest you check out the Rails Deployment discussion group:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?lnk=li

On Mar 13, 6:43 pm, "PeteSalty"
<petesa...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> I''m currently using hostingrails.com - here''s my
experience:
>
> Pros:
>  - resonable inexpensive
>  - you get a lot for your money
>  - fairly easy out the gate setup
>  - good set-up/config information available in their forums
>  - service is pretty fast so far but few users on my server
>
> Cons:
>  - not much help if you have a real problem - they try but responses
> can be slow (we were down 3 hours last Thursday - didn''t respond
to
> help requests until sometime after we were back up)
>  - requires a year upfront payment
>  - I get the opinion they are learning as they go
>
> So, if you want to do some simple strightforward hosting and you know
> your way around cPanel then it''s probably fine. Pretty cheap, even
> given yearly payment and you do get a lot for your money (at the top
> end 150meg dedicated for mongrels)
>
> On Mar 13, 5:27 pm, "Todd Warfel"
<todd.war...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > We''re currently hosting on Media Temple, but their Grid
Servers are
> > letting us down. We''ve had an average of two calls per week
to them w/
> > reliability issues - they just keep going down for 20-30 minutes at a
> > time.
>
> > So, we''re looking for a reliable RoR host that we can do
multi-site
> > hosting on. Nothing to big for now, just three blogs running Mephisto
> > and/or WordPress. Eventually, we''re going to have some small
internal
> > apps that we''ll need to host on the servers. We''d
also like to be able
> > to stay with that hosting provider, even if we have to move to a
> > different type of hosting, when we start scaling our apps.
>
> > And we want it to be easy to setup out of the gate.

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Pat Maddox

2007-Mar-14 02:19 UTC

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Re: Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

On 3/13/07, Todd Warfel
<todd.warfel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
> We''re currently hosting on Media Temple, but their Grid Servers
are
> letting us down. We''ve had an average of two calls per week to
them w/
> reliability issues - they just keep going down for 20-30 minutes at a
> time.
>
> So, we''re looking for a reliable RoR host that we can do
multi-site
> hosting on. Nothing to big for now, just three blogs running Mephisto
> and/or WordPress. Eventually, we''re going to have some small
internal
> apps that we''ll need to host on the servers. We''d also
like to be able
> to stay with that hosting provider, even if we have to move to a
> different type of hosting, when we start scaling our apps.
>
> And we want it to be easy to setup out of the gate.
>
>
> >
>
I use slicehost.com to host my blog and some other apps.  It''s very
good and if uptime isn''t critical then they''ll definitely be
great for
you.  By "if uptime isn''t critical" I don''t mean
that they''re down a
lot though (I haven''t noticed any downtime), I just mean "if
uptime
isn''t critical."

At work, we deploy our app to engineyard.com.  So far they''ve been
kick ass.  You seriously don''t have to do anything...just write your
app and they take care of the rest.  When you sign up you tell them
what gems you want on your slice, and they send you back an email with
all your info as well as a Capistrano recipe that''s tailored to their
setup.  Support has been great, they respond within minutes most of
the time, and usually when they respond it''s because they''ve
fixed
your problem.

Of course you pay for fully managed service like that.  Like I said,
we write the code and they handle everything when it comes to
deployment.  If you just want a reliable place to deploy your apps,
and you can manage your own server, then slicehost is a great choice.

Pat

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MichaelLatta

2007-Mar-14 02:40 UTC

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Re: Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

I have been talking to engineyard.com.  They are VERY knoweldgable
about Rails hosting.  Not the cheapest, but top notch service as far
as I can tell.  Hopefully I will be working with them soon on a
project.

Michael

On Mar 13, 7:19 pm, "Pat Maddox"
<perg...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> On 3/13/07, Todd Warfel
<todd.war...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > We''re currently hosting on Media Temple, but their Grid
Servers are
> > letting us down. We''ve had an average of two calls per week
to them w/
> > reliability issues - they just keep going down for 20-30 minutes at a
> > time.
>
> > So, we''re looking for a reliable RoR host that we can do
multi-site
> > hosting on. Nothing to big for now, just three blogs running Mephisto
> > and/or WordPress. Eventually, we''re going to have some small
internal
> > apps that we''ll need to host on the servers. We''d
also like to be able
> > to stay with that hosting provider, even if we have to move to a
> > different type of hosting, when we start scaling our apps.
>
> > And we want it to be easy to setup out of the gate.
>
> I use slicehost.com to host my blog and some other apps.  It''s
very
> good and if uptime isn''t critical then they''ll definitely
be great for
> you.  By "if uptime isn''t critical" I don''t
mean that they''re down a
> lot though (I haven''t noticed any downtime), I just mean "if
uptime
> isn''t critical."
>
> At work, we deploy our app to engineyard.com.  So far they''ve been
> kick ass.  You seriously don''t have to do anything...just write
your
> app and they take care of the rest.  When you sign up you tell them
> what gems you want on your slice, and they send you back an email with
> all your info as well as a Capistrano recipe that''s tailored to
their
> setup.  Support has been great, they respond within minutes most of
> the time, and usually when they respond it''s because
they''ve fixed
> your problem.
>
> Of course you pay for fully managed service like that.  Like I said,
> we write the code and they handle everything when it comes to
> deployment.  If you just want a reliable place to deploy your apps,
> and you can manage your own server, then slicehost is a great choice.
>
> Pat

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Nick Snels

2007-Mar-14 07:46 UTC

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Re: Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

Take a look at http://www.railshostinginfo.com for a rundown of some of 
the better known Rails hosting companies. It also allows you to easily 
compare them and find a good one.

I would like to ask everybody who has experience with hosting Rails 
projects to submit his review at RailsHostingInfo.com, so it becomes 
easier for others in the Rails community to find a host. Thanks.

Kind regards,

Nick


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Pierre-Alexandre Meyer

2007-Mar-14 08:17 UTC

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Re: Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:27:08PM -0700, Todd Warfel wrote
:> So, we''re looking for a reliable RoR host that we can do
multi-site
> hosting on. 
Give RailsMachine a try. For $75/month, you''ll have support from
Bradley
Taylor (author of mongrel_cluster gem).

Look at the webcast on their website: http://railsmachine.com/

Regards,

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maykelrr

2007-Mar-27 17:19 UTC

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Re: Looking for Reliable RoR Hosting

Hello Todd, I''m Maykel from SpeedyRails.com, we offer fully managed
shared and dedicated hosting, this mean we will always help you, no
matter if you have a shared or dedicated plan, if the problem is in
the OS or your application, we will always help you solve the
problems. We have fair prices for shared hosting (one Rails
application per account) and also very good prices for fully managed
dedicated servers, so you don''t have to be a linux expert to have your
own dedicated box to host many rails applications. Do not hesitate to
contact us, we will be happy to assist you.

Sorry for the chimes, but I don''t have experience with other providers
(although I know EngineYard and Rails Machine are very good too!)

On Mar 13, 8:27 pm, "Todd Warfel"
<todd.war...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> We''re currently hosting on Media Temple, but their Grid Servers
are
> letting us down. We''ve had an average of two calls per week to
them w/
> reliability issues - they just keep going down for 20-30 minutes at a
> time.
>
> So, we''re looking for a reliable RoR host that we can do
multi-site
> hosting on. Nothing to big for now, just three blogs running Mephisto
> and/or WordPress. Eventually, we''re going to have some small
internal
> apps that we''ll need to host on the servers. We''d also
like to be able
> to stay with that hosting provider, even if we have to move to a
> different type of hosting, when we start scaling our apps.
>
> And we want it to be easy to setup out of the gate.

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