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Ask HN: Ruby on Rails host?
I'm planning to roll out an application in the next few months. I'm looking for a good, reliable RoR host. I thought of EngineYard but I don't quite need that level of hosting yet until I'm sure the idea will take off.
Does anyone have suggestions for a good RoR host? I'm looking at the < $50/mo range if possible but willing to go as high as $75 a month.
- pclark 18y agoSlicehost or Amazon Web Services. I personally use Joyent, but they're rather pricey.
- teej 18y ago> Slicehost or Amazon Web Services. I would highly recommend, and have used, both of these. They require you to know what you're doing, however. I absolutely cannot recommend Joyent. In my experience, their customer service was terrible, their servers were slow, and their prices were way too high.
- pclark 18y agooh, and this is a good resource for hosts for rails : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=272031 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=272031
- gtani 18y agohttp://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7mnbi/ask_reddit_what_is_the_best_host_for_a_ruby_on/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7mnbi/ask_reddi... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/251418/who-are-good-web-hosts-for-ruby-on-rails-projects http://stackoverflow.com/questions/251418/who-are-good-web-h... usual suspects: slicehost, linode, rails Machines, engineyard, rimu,
- ionfish 18y agoSomeone at work linked me to Brightbox yesterday; haven't used them myself so I don't know how good they are. http://www.brightbox.co.uk/ http://www.brightbox.co.uk/ Of course, there's always Heroku: http://heroku.com/ http://heroku.com/ I have nothing but good things to say about Slicehost, but getting Rails up and running requires more work than a dedicated Rails hosting setup would (the upside, of course, is greater flexibility).
- the_hack 18y agoNo question - Don't pay a dime. Use Heroku Garden for free, then you can upgrade to paid if you need to. I have my main app on a Dreamhost shared server, but I had to move my blog because it kept getting shut down for using too much ram. Heroku is great because you can develop online or off and use git if you want to