True, but this wasn't really the case before mod_rails (Passenger) made it relatively painless to host rails apps on a shared server. I deployed a smallish rai

True, but this wasn't really the case before mod_rails (Passenger) made it relatively painless to host rails apps on a shared server. I deployed a smallish rails app on Dreamhost in about 5 minutes last night. My previous attempt to deploy on a stock SuSE/apache2 server took a few days of fairly dedicated prodding.