Hi all, I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response time of my application is incredible slow. Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at all, or very, very late). Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your application to a different host? And if so, which one to choose? Regards, Harm de Laat Kabisa ICT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060701/8b098259/attachment-0001.html
Questions 1. Which shared server are you on? 2. What server (apache, lighty, mongrel) are you deploying you application. Reccomendations 1. Get a VPS, rails and shared hosting tend not to play very well together. If you do this, go to RImuhosting.com (they are cheap and good). I am a customer there, and they are really nice, and helpful, and getting a rails application running there is easy. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Harm de Laat wrote:> And if so, which one to choose?Site5.com is very reliable shared hosting for rails applications. Settler -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On 7/1/06, Harm de Laat <harmdelaat@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at all, > or very, very late).I switched to TextDrive a month and a half ago and I have always had very fast and helpful responses from them. Peter
On Jul 1, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Harm de Laat wrote:> Hi all, > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response > time of my application is incredible slow. > Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond > (at all, or very, very late). > > Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? > And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your > application to a different host? And if so, which one to choose? > > Regards, > > Harm de Laat > Kabisa ICT >If you want to stay on shared hosting then I heavily recommend PlanetArgon.com. Shared hosting for rails is very hard to do right but planet argon is one of the best for shared rails hosting. I had issues at textdrive myself when I was on the infamous Gilford server. If you can afford it a VPS is a great way to go for rails apps but if you still want shared host costs then Planet Argon is the way to go. Cheers- -Ezra
On 7/1/06, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@gmail.com> wrote:> > If you want to stay on shared hosting then I heavily recommend > PlanetArgon.com.After being burned by another hosting service, I had some questions about shared plans and PlanetArgon didn''t respond to my second email. Textdrive responded quickly and that is why they won my account. Peter
You must realize that you''re not on "TextDrive" but on SOMETHING.textdrive.com and without knowing the particular machine, no one can help you. I''ve had great experience on my textdrive host. Are you aware of the Ongoing Issues (http://help.textdrive.com/ index.php?pg=forums.topics&id=2) and Current Issues (http:// help.textdrive.com/index.php?pg=forums.topics&id=1) to check things out first? Take a look there. The help desk is very supportive and the TextDrive/Joyent persons that I''ve met have all been quite nice. -Rob Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Harm de Laat wrote:> Hi all, > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response > time of my application is incredible slow. > Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond > (at all, or very, very late). > > Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? > And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your > application to a different host? And if so, which one to choose? > > Regards, > > Harm de Laat > Kabisa ICT > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060701/de2ea981/attachment.html
On Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 03:36:26PM -0400, Rob Biedenharn wrote:> You must realize that you''re not on "TextDrive" but on SOMETHING.textdrive.com and without knowing the particular machine, no one can help you. > I''ve had great experience on my textdrive host. Are you aware of the Ongoing Issues > (http://help.textdrive.com/index.php?pg=forums.topics&id=2) and Current Issues (http://help.textdrive.com/index.php?pg=forums.topics&id=1) to > check things out first? > > Take a look there. The help desk is very supportive and the TextDrive/Joyent persons that I''ve met have all been quite nice.when i was researching hosting for clients, the sheer volume of negative comments on textdrive ( eclipsed only by dreamhost, which costs a fraction ) was enough to scare me away. that and the fact that they have some ''RailsBase'' service which has been ''coming-soon'' for a year, which leads me to believe they don''t know what theyre doing. im sure they''re well intentioned, but i do think theres economies of scale wrt peering agreements, colo pricing, and the like, that youre not going to get with someone who specializes in just rails.. which is why i chose site5 and havent had any issues. if that railsbase thing ever comes out, i''ll probably try it anyway (though in the meantime, RailsMachine popped up, apparently delivering on textdrive''s promise by proxy)
I''m watching this thread as well. The one TextDrive server I''m on (and the only one a care about) has been down all the time. On 7/1/06, Harm de Laat <harmdelaat@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response time of my > application is incredible slow. > Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at all, > or very, very late). > > Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? > And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your application to a > different host? And if so, which one to choose? > > Regards, > > Harm de Laat > Kabisa ICT > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >
TextDrive''s process watchdog will kill your ruby thread and its parent process if a certain threshold is met. The ruby parent thread of course is your web server if you are using lightty/fcgi. I got a nasty gram from one of the admins when I was setting up Capistrano to keep the fcgi threads managed externally. On 7/10/06, Michael Genereux <mgenereu@gmail.com> wrote:> > I''m watching this thread as well. The one TextDrive server I''m on > (and the only one a care about) has been down all the time. > > On 7/1/06, Harm de Laat <harmdelaat@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response time of > my > > application is incredible slow. > > Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. > > > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at > all, > > or very, very late). > > > > Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? > > And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your application > to a > > different host? And if so, which one to choose? > > > > Regards, > > > > Harm de Laat > > Kabisa ICT > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060710/23c5eb37/attachment.html
Get a VPS from rimuhosting.com ... fast, reliable, wonderful customer service. On 7/10/06, Steve Longdo <steve.longdo@gmail.com> wrote:> > TextDrive''s process watchdog will kill your ruby thread and its parent > process if a certain threshold is met. The ruby parent thread of course is > your web server if you are using lightty/fcgi. I got a nasty gram from one > of the admins when I was setting up Capistrano to keep the fcgi threads > managed externally. > > > On 7/10/06, Michael Genereux <mgenereu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I''m watching this thread as well. The one TextDrive server I''m on > > (and the only one a care about) has been down all the time. > > > > On 7/1/06, Harm de Laat <harmdelaat@gmail.com > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > > > > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response time > > of my > > > application is incredible slow. > > > Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. > > > > > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at > > all, > > > or very, very late). > > > > > > Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? > > > And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your application > > to a > > > different host? And if so, which one to choose? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Harm de Laat > > > Kabisa ICT > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Rails mailing list > > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >-- seth at subimage interactive http://www.subimage.com/sublog/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060710/7ca14796/attachment.html
On 7/10/06, subimage interactive <subimage@gmail.com> wrote:> > Get a VPS from rimuhosting.com ... fast, reliable, wonderful customer > service. >I''ve seen a lot of positive recommendations for RimuHosting, so if I end up leaving Textdrive, that''s where I''ll likely end up (Planet Argon is probably good, but if I''m going to the trouble of moving, it will not be to another shared host). Any recommendations on OS when running on a VPS plan? I would lean towards Debian or Ubuntu, but I wasn''t sure which to choose. -- Larry Wright http://www.approachingnormal.com http://www.welcometoparenthood.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060710/18cc834a/attachment.html
Harm de Laat wrote:> Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive?Textdrive was hyped beyond hope when they hit the rails scene with shared hosting. I recall the postings about how great they were (even in this forum). So I opened an account with them and deployed my rails stuff. Of course ANYTIME I wanted to demo my software thir server was down. I literally tried to demo four times and each time (different days) the server was offline. Well, that was it for me. I moved onto Linode.com and haven''t looked back. Textdrive was recently bought out by some other company but from what I heard the quality of server actually went down hill even more (if that is even possible). Cheers, Jason T. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I also had lots of problems with TextDrive downtime. When I complained about it they said it was my own fault for using rails! I now use my own hosted rack. Andy On 10 Jul 2006, at 17:12, Michael Genereux wrote:> I''m watching this thread as well. The one TextDrive server I''m on > (and the only one a care about) has been down all the time. > > On 7/1/06, Harm de Laat <harmdelaat@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. >> >> At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response >> time of my >> application is incredible slow. >> Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. >> >> I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond >> (at all, >> or very, very late). >> >> Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? >> And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your >> application to a >> different host? And if so, which one to choose? >> >> Regards, >> >> Harm de Laat >> Kabisa ICT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Andy Pols wrote:> I also had lots of problems with TextDrive downtime. When I complained > about it they said it was my own fault for using rails!I''ve never heard this. Honestly. They''re more supportive of rails than nearly everyone -- one of their developers is part of the rails core. No other hosting company has that. This doesn''t mean they don''t dislike badly-coded rails apps, or ones that consume huge chunks o'' ram or processor -- and there have been more than a couple that have done so. (Not saying yours is one of them, just that maybe you hit someone right after an incident, y''know?) I''ve been with TextDrive for more than a year, and couldn''t be happier with them. Never had significant uptime issues, just one episode with a zombie process that was difficult to debug (but now that I know what to look for, it''s never happened again, either). -- _Deirdre web / blog: http://deirdre.net/ "Memes are a hoax! Pass it on!"
On 7/1/06, Harm de Laat <harmdelaat@gmail.com> wrote:> I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response time of my > application is incredible slow.There are a ton of possible reasons for that. Without knowing anything about your setup, it''s mighty hard to diagnose what the problem might be. If I were you, I''d pop over to the forums and ask specific questions. You''ll get specific, helpful answers. http://forum.textdrive.com/ The community at TextDrive is unbeatable.> Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime.What server are you on?> I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at all, > or very, very late).Again, I''d recommend going to the forums as a first step, before anything else. The admins are all on there, all the time, and either they or experienced customers will likely do their damnedest to help.> Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive?I''ve experienced all these things. The slow response time to my Rails app -- I''ve been hosting Rails apps with TextDrive for over a year and a half now -- turned out to be my fault, due to poor setup. There was a bunch of downtime on my server -- One -- a while back, during a period when TextDrive was expanding perhaps a little too rapidly for its own good; but things have been stable for a while now. I''ve had mixed experiences with their support. I''ve found that, in general, the best approach is to start in the forums. I''ve also found that they take the priority rating system of the tickets seriously, and so low priority tickets can take a while to be dealt with. Though I''ve always had them dealt with in the end. In general, TextDrive is a fine host. They have their problems, but they also have their strengths. The community is one of their greatest strengths, and if you take advantage of it, you''ll be rewarded. -- Chris Boone, Hypsometry http://hypsometry.com/ Web Application Design & Development
Debian all the way! On 7/10/06, Larry Wright <larrywright@gmail.com> wrote:> > > > On 7/10/06, subimage interactive <subimage@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Get a VPS from rimuhosting.com ... fast, reliable, wonderful customer > > service. > > > > > I''ve seen a lot of positive recommendations for RimuHosting, so if I end > up leaving Textdrive, that''s where I''ll likely end up (Planet Argon is > probably good, but if I''m going to the trouble of moving, it will not be to > another shared host). > > Any recommendations on OS when running on a VPS plan? I would lean towards > Debian or Ubuntu, but I wasn''t sure which to choose. > > -- > Larry Wright > http://www.approachingnormal.com > http://www.welcometoparenthood.com > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >-- seth at subimage interactive http://www.subimage.com/sublog/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060711/935f8756/attachment.html
I''ll throw in my 2 cents and say that OCS Solutions has been an incredible host for me. http://www.ocssolutions.com/ I literally have a BB thread with one of the admins, and every day or two I''ll post with some random question and he''ll respond in less than an hour. They''re fast, reliable, and the best service I could ever imagine. -Ben Lisbakken On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:41 PM, subimage interactive wrote:> Debian all the way! > > On 7/10/06, Larry Wright <larrywright@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 7/10/06, subimage interactive < subimage@gmail.com> wrote: > Get a VPS from rimuhosting.com ... fast, reliable, wonderful > customer service. > > > I''ve seen a lot of positive recommendations for RimuHosting, so if > I end up leaving Textdrive, that''s where I''ll likely end up (Planet > Argon is probably good, but if I''m going to the trouble of moving, > it will not be to another shared host). > > Any recommendations on OS when running on a VPS plan? I would lean > towards Debian or Ubuntu, but I wasn''t sure which to choose. > > -- > Larry Wright > http://www.approachingnormal.com > http://www.welcometoparenthood.com > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > > > -- > seth at subimage interactive > http://www.subimage.com/sublog/ > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060713/6af621ef/attachment.html
R Ri Rim Rimu Rimuh Rimuho Rimuhos Rimuhost Rimuhosti Rimuhostin Rimuhosting Rimuhosting r Rimuhosting ru Rimuhosting rul Rimuhosting rule Rimuhosting rules. 20$ Debian ROOT access Lighttpd How could you go wrong? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006, Dor Kalev wrote:> [...] > Rimuhosting rules. > 20$ > Debian > ROOT access > Lighttpd > > How could you go wrong?It''s not "wrong", per se, but in order to get a VPS from Rimu that has enough RAM for the 4 or 5 apps I need to run, I''d be spending so much that it makes more sense to get a dedicated server from Layered Tech (for instance). Not a slight on Rimu at all. If I only had my subversion, trac, and blog to run, I''d have been a customer of theirs long ago. Ben
I have 3 rails apps/lighttpd proxying to apache with subversion/1 php wordpress blog running RImuhosting $30/mo (128mb) Granted these are not large scale apps, nor are they heavily hit, but i still have 30mb free as of now ~Jamie On Jul 13, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Ben Bleything wrote:> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006, Dor Kalev wrote: >> [...] >> Rimuhosting rules. >> 20$ >> Debian >> ROOT access >> Lighttpd >> >> How could you go wrong? > > It''s not "wrong", per se, but in order to get a VPS from Rimu that has > enough RAM for the 4 or 5 apps I need to run, I''d be spending so much > that it makes more sense to get a dedicated server from Layered Tech > (for instance). > > Not a slight on Rimu at all. If I only had my subversion, trac, and > blog to run, I''d have been a customer of theirs long ago. > > Ben > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Anyone have any experience with Textdrive''s new containers? http://textdrive.com/hosting/container On 7/1/06, Harm de Laat <harmdelaat@gmail.com> wrote:> > Hi all, > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response time of > my application is incredible slow. > Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at all, > or very, very late). > > Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? > And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your application to > a different host? And if so, which one to choose? > > Regards, > > Harm de Laat > Kabisa ICT > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >-- Larry Wright http://www.approachingnormal.com http://www.welcometoparenthood.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060715/4b6465e6/attachment.html
Harm de Laat wrote:> Hi all, > > I have deployed my Ruby On Rails application on TextDrive. > > At first everything seamed to be fine. However, lately, response time of > my > application is incredible slow. > Worse, lately there is also a lot of downtime. > > I have contacted their support desk, however, they do not respond (at > all, > or very, very late). > > Has anyone else these experiences with TextDrive? > And if so, what did you do about it? Did you transfer your application > to a > different host? And if so, which one to choose?I''ve been hosting my Rails site with WebFaction (http://www.webfaction.com) for a while and it works great (they use Mongrel). They have one-click installers in their control panel for lots of things, including Rails. Mike. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.