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I'd say affordable hosting for the masses above everything else. If I can't play with it, I won't code for it.
by Kilimanjaro 16y ago
I'd say affordable hosting for the masses above everything else. If I can't play with it, I won't code for it.
- gmac 16y agoNot sure everyone feels that way -- Rails took off plenty before there were any good hosting options, and I'd say Rails hosting is still harder/dearer than PHP (despite the awesomeness of Passenger/mod_rails).
- steveklabnik 16y agoAny particular reason that it's harder? With Passenger, the workflow is seemingly identical. (That said, I use nginx/unicorn)
- gmac 16y agoI was thinking of the unavailability of cheap shared web hosting (which I guess actually only justifies the 'dearer' part). And I may be out of date on that too...
- steveklabnik 16y agoAs someone who's deployed a Sinatra app to shared web hosting a few days ago, no, that totally sucks. But here's the thing: VPSes are so cheap now, I don't know why you'd ever go with shared hosting in this day and age. I don't have a job right now and I still haven't bothered to turn off my VPS, even though I don't use it... come to think of that, I should probably go log into the Rackspace console...
- gmac 16y agoAbsolutely. I love Linode! But when I was starting out with Rails my sysadmin skills wouldn't have been up to that, even if the VPS landscape had been the way it now is.
- loire280 16y agoFor mass adoption, yes. However, with the advent of cheap VPS hosting, most of the people willing to try a new language/framework before it hits Drupal/Django/Rails momentum are perfectly capable of deploying sites. Everybody has a VPS nowadays, right? Having a Heroku-equivalent or being built into shared hosting doesn't happen until you're nearly to critical mass.