Mongrel users - Dec 2006 - shared hosting for an ISP

A hosting company has contacted me and is interested in providing  
Ruby on Rails hosting for their customers.  They provide both  
dedicated and shared hosting.  I know there are a lot of shared hosts  
that support Rails, but most of them (that I''ve seen) are using  
mod_fastcgi, or a similar setup.  I''m curious what people think about  
accomplishing this with mongrel with Apache 2.2.

I''m thinking I could use some capistrano tasks or extend their web  
interface to manage the mongrel and apache configurations.  Each user  
has jailed SSH access, so I could just run the mongrel processes as  
that user.

Does anyone see any issues with this setup?

Thanks,
Brandon

On 12/6/06, Brandon Keepers <bkeepers at gmail.com>
wrote:
> A hosting company has contacted me and is interested in providing
> Ruby on Rails hosting for their customers.  They provide both
> dedicated and shared hosting.  I know there are a lot of shared hosts
> that support Rails, but most of them (that I''ve seen) are using
> mod_fastcgi, or a similar setup.  I''m curious what people think
about
> accomplishing this with mongrel with Apache 2.2.
I do this with Mongrel.  Not rails hosting, but so long as the shared
host is prepared for the Rails resource usage, using Rails wouldn''t be
any different than what I do.

I have no problems at all running things in this way, but I do have
total control of the server, so I can plan and control port usage
myself, too, which makes it easier.

I have found that using Mongrel in a shared hosting environment is my
simplest option for deploying new sites and applications.


Kirk Haines