Re: Re: How Far Can An Rails App Scale on Textdrive

Jorge Sousa
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:35:24 -0000

But I guess that most of TextDrive customers went there because of
their Rails support or at least the chance of hosting a rails app on
the net.

Sure the forums, community are great and we learn a lot. But if it was
not for having rails hosting support most of us (TxD customers) would
choose it over other hosting places which cost less?

Speaking for myself i own a VCII account. Only went there because of
Rails. But most of the time everything is too slow. Apache proxying to
lighttpd crawls even for a simple plain login page (and have been
following forun post on how to squeeze some more perfo. from
configuration) . The best solution is to use the assigned port number
in the url which is an ugly solution. The same pages on the same
server but done in php are much faster and easy to setup.

So as TxD is launching a Rails shared hosting orientated service and
now I also think the VCII plan was a bad choice. Sure all the other
non-rails features are great, but at the same time useless if one
doesn''t use them. For these there are other cheaper options out there.

Maybe TxD should offer some kind of migration to VC## owners to this
new service even if that means getting less features. Any owner of
regular account have the chance to cancel it by the end of the month
or signed period and jump to the new service. We unfortunatly will be
stucked with the VC## forever, which is a long time I hope.

In the meantime I''m married to TXD and  just have to live with what I
have and move along.
As San Quatre wrote, I''m also feeling buyer''s remorse.


Jorge



On 10/2/05, Ben Myles <ben.myles-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On 10/3/05, San Quatre
<sanzbox-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Oh heavens, talk about buyer''s remorse.
> >
> > So buying that TxD lifetime hosting plan was a bad idea?
>
> Oh no, I wouldn''t say that. The new service will be purely for
Rails
> apps only, with no support for the many other (non-rails) features you
> get on a normal TxD account. You also won''t have as much freedom
as
> you do on a normal account - think StrongSpace for rails apps. So
> there''s pros and cons for both offerings.
>
> Ben
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