I like dreamhost a lot and have an account with them, but deploying rails was a challenge so I decided on something easier. I'm competent enough to use ssh and

I like dreamhost a lot and have an account with them, but deploying rails was a challenge so I decided on something easier. I'm competent enough to use ssh and command line to do basic things, but beyond that I have some trouble. After doing research to find a better hosting option I went with Webbynode. http://webbynode.com http://webbynode.com I use it for my rails based startup padseeker.com. It makes pushing code via git as easy as it is for heroku, but it is more flexible, i.e. allows file uploads w/o using s3, you can use mysql or postgres (heroku only allows postgres without another service). It's been overall a good experience, very little down time. Heroku might be better for certain things, but webbynode has been perfect for my needs. It's not free though - lowest plan is $15 per month. I know digital ocean starts as low as $5 per month. Dotcloud and Appfog are either free or cheap and seem comparable.