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Can you elaborate why you'd feel better if they assured you your data are hosted separately and maybe give you ssh to the machine? They would still be able to a

• tptacek 18y ago
  It's a good question, you shouldn't have gotten downmodded. If I'm sharing a single hosted instance of an app with 10 other customers, any bug in the Rails code can potentially give me access to other people's data. If I own my own instance on a VM, even if I can't get access to the VM, I'm at least assured that I'm not sharing controller or model code with other customers. Now that creating new public VMs with Rails instances on them is a pushbutton affair, you'd think people would start offering this as a feature. It's a great way to get a "*GOLD" price tier in your app.