| 1.
| 1/13/2009 6:57:00 PM | Linode, and VPS in general is a wonderful solution. Well worth the loss is some minute stats like bandwidth. |
| 2.
| 1/13/2009 7:01:00 PM | Slicehost; I don't care to have to maintain the OS, but the client can't afford more than $20/month |
| 3.
| 1/13/2009 7:02:00 PM | It was difficult to figure out the differences and nuances of the environment and getting everything to work. |
| 4.
| 1/13/2009 7:12:00 PM | I run only a couple of small sites right now, so self-hosting out of my apartment on an Atom box is fine. If my next app takes off like I hope, I'll have to look for something else. |
| 5.
| 1/13/2009 7:30:00 PM | I actually use both Engine Yard and Slicehost. EY has the production and staging slices for my most worked on app, Slicehost has blogs, other web apps, and anything else I need. So to elaborate on above questions, I prefer Engine Yard for my important, money making, "serious" site, but Slicehost works for others, and I may try things in between in the future - a lot depends on the particular site's needs. |
| 6.
| 1/13/2009 7:32:00 PM | Fantastic support from RailsMachine. |
| 7.
| 1/13/2009 8:00:00 PM | Slow bandwidth, although advertised as high |
| 8.
| 1/13/2009 8:04:00 PM | Textdrive suck. |
| 9.
| 1/13/2009 8:05:00 PM | You can beat Slicehost for the price. I have used HostingRails (a piece of shit) and RailsMachine (waaaaaaay too expensive) in the past. Though, I'm envious of those who can afford something like EngineYard (I concentrate on coding and they handle everything else).
Here's my take on Boxcar (which looks like a good service) and other Rails VPSes. They are basically a "Basic VPS" with a Rails stack pre-installed. However, they tend to be about 2x the monthly cost (or more) of a Basic VPS. I only need the stack setup once, but I end up paying for it every month. So, I should just take the Basic VPS and invest my time to install the Rails stack once. Perhaps the Rails VPS companies should take the Basic VPS approach yet, optionally, charge customers a one-time Rails stack setup fee. Now, we're comparing apples to apples -- I can say is it worth the $100 one-time Rails stack setup fee to avoid 4 hours of my time setting up a Rails stack? Sure it is. |
| 10.
| 1/13/2009 8:18:00 PM | I am in a very good colo facility but the company I deal with is having financial difficulty and once they were faced with having their assets seized to pay their bills. This has been taken care of but I am nervous about their continued viability. |
| 11.
| 1/13/2009 8:21:00 PM | We have automated VPS installations with vlad deployments to linode, slicehost, and EC2. We are trying to transition to puppet + ldap on a redundant set of linode slices, but this is taking time. Any time we find a hand-tweak needs to be made we try to automate that in the process. We have a part-time sysadmin to do the on-call work and help with automation, but otherwise it's 3 developers doing part-time automation work. |
| 12.
| 1/13/2009 8:28:00 PM | about deployment, you can't say it's "easy" to deploy your first rails application, but once you get it, you can call it easy. |
| 13.
| 1/13/2009 8:29:00 PM | No PostgreSQL on Dreamhost! FTL. |
| 14.
| 1/13/2009 8:31:00 PM | i hate having to do everything myself when i've hired them to do the admin shit.
too busy to do anything about it for now. |
| 15.
| 1/13/2009 8:42:00 PM | Would love webistrano and cruise control integration and no more svn, only git. Very content to do this myself.
PS. Don't do financing in my company |
| 16.
| 1/13/2009 8:48:00 PM | I have a bottom-end Dreamhost account, but haven't used it for Rails yet. I do like Passenger's user interface and "touch tmp/restart.txt" ease of managment. Oh and still waiting for Rails to scale. |
| 17.
| 1/13/2009 8:52:00 PM | The os we're on makes gem and lib installs annoying. i'd prefer to be on ubuntu with proper apt-get instead of yum |
| 18.
| 1/13/2009 9:02:00 PM | JohnCompanies is just great |
| 19.
| 1/13/2009 9:03:00 PM | Because we host through a managed team you really notice the bad attitudes fostered in operations teams (e.g. "we don't get this rails stuff so we won't help you fix issues.") |
| 20.
| 1/13/2009 9:16:00 PM | sudo rights + preinstalled everything would be best |
| 21.
| 1/13/2009 9:34:00 PM | We have a SOA environment consiting of 30+ Rails-based services serving a PHP frontend via a custom JSON-based API. It doesn't really fit into the questions of this survey. :) |
| 22.
| 1/13/2009 9:37:00 PM | I'm using slice host and haven't had any problems. I also like being able to hop into the chat room and ask questions...there is always a slicehost person in there and they are usually very helpful. |
| 23.
| 1/13/2009 9:39:00 PM | Frankly EY is too expensive and over hyped, just watch their wordpress downtime blog |
| 24.
| 1/13/2009 10:16:00 PM | Just moved from shared hosting (FastCGI, a disaster pretty much) to VPS (mod_rails) |
| 25.
| 1/13/2009 10:17:00 PM | Will switch to Basic VPS very soon |
| 26.
| 1/13/2009 10:53:00 PM | UK VPS are to expensive. Brightbox are going in the right direction but places like Gandi.net are starting to compete. |
| 27.
| 1/13/2009 11:31:00 PM | Slicehost have been responsive to support requests and are very easy to use |
| 28.
| 1/13/2009 11:35:00 PM | Slicehost - Cheap, reliable and fast. Also great support |
| 29.
| 1/13/2009 11:35:00 PM | SliceHost has been exactly what I wanted: Gives me a vanilla OS install and gets out of my way, is fast, reliable, easy to setup, and cheap. |
| 30.
| 1/13/2009 11:52:00 PM | Bargain price, I have access to everything. Management is always really important. |
| 31.
| 1/13/2009 11:56:00 PM | Slicehost is GREAT! |
| 32.
| 1/14/2009 12:01:00 AM | I have a collocated server from ToadNet. |
| 33.
| 1/14/2009 12:02:00 AM | EY's full-service isn't, take too long to get flesh on phone |
| 34.
| 1/14/2009 12:15:00 AM | Slicehost FTW |
| 35.
| 1/14/2009 12:23:00 AM | I use RailsMachine. I have been extremely happy with them so far. They are very knowledgeable and are always very prompt in replying to issues. |
| 36.
| 1/14/2009 1:46:00 AM | slicehost |
| 37.
| 1/14/2009 2:26:00 AM | Ruby and Rails have gotten to a point where it's easy to get up and running on any of the OS's that I care about. |
| 38.
| 1/14/2009 2:35:00 AM | Would love to user Engine Yard but they are too expensive |
| 39.
| 1/14/2009 3:40:00 AM | Currently using Rackspace and have had a good experience (except for they day they moved all of our servers to a new rack instead of the 2 that were supposed to move) |
| 40.
| 1/14/2009 4:11:00 AM | I used to use vpsfarm.com for vps but switched to AWS for the flexibility and the performances |
| 41.
| 1/14/2009 4:23:00 AM | Self-managed slices are becoming a PITA. |
| 42.
| 1/14/2009 4:38:00 AM | EngineYard does a great job. |
| 43.
| 1/14/2009 6:38:00 AM | Not enough support. Too complex. |
| 44.
| 1/14/2009 8:16:00 AM | Looking into upgrading to VPS, also moving to passenger. DH is limited, but suits basic applications OK. |
| 45.
| 1/14/2009 9:10:00 AM | It's hard to quantify performance of the provider (disk I/O and CPU) |
| 46.
| 1/14/2009 9:12:00 AM | It is cheap and has good connectivity, but customer support is minimal and has questionable policy. |
| 47.
| 1/14/2009 9:20:00 AM | re: Q29. We use Site5 too. Happy with all, especially Joyent and Rails Boxcar. In early days of Rails pretty much everything was a hassle :-) |
| 48.
| 1/14/2009 9:33:00 AM | Slicehost have good prices, good customer service and it just works! (Also have some apps on Brightbox - this is a bit more expensive but it means I don't have all my eggs in one basket). |
| 49.
| 1/14/2009 9:39:00 AM | We run RailsCluster: a shared and clustered Rails host in the Netherlands. It's very fast, fully redundant, and we can set up any gem that we want to. |
| 50.
| 1/14/2009 10:29:00 AM | I plan to use EC2 |
| 51.
| 1/14/2009 10:52:00 AM | One had power failures. The other is too expensive. Rails and Capistrano are always a pain to setup on a standard dedicated server. |
| 52.
| 1/14/2009 11:57:00 AM | contemplating using AWS |
| 53.
| 1/14/2009 12:30:00 PM | My two big clients have opposite hosting: one is managed via EngineYard and the other is completely self-hosted. I'd love the self-hosting more if they had a SysAdmin to handle all the platform stuff. That's the part that, to a developer like me, really sets managed hosting apart. |
| 54.
| 1/14/2009 1:10:00 PM | 1) Their support sucks, they are dishonest and incorrect about downtime, and I can't reach anyone on the phone when I need them. |
| 55.
| 1/14/2009 1:29:00 PM | and no. |
| 56.
| 1/14/2009 1:38:00 PM | LOVE morph for effortless deployment and scaling. Also do my own on several sites that don't need scaling. |
| 57.
| 1/14/2009 2:05:00 PM | The performance of disk access is the only problem we've had at Rimu. |
| 58.
| 1/14/2009 2:25:00 PM | EC2 is the best. |
| 59.
| 1/14/2009 2:44:00 PM | I tried slicehost and decided that I want to be a developer not an administrator. I don't mind rolling my own, but I don't want to be responsible for the security of my server. I am not as well versed in Capistrano as I would like to be, so deployments are a little rough around the edges on my VPS. |
| 60.
| 1/14/2009 2:46:00 PM | For a standard VPS, rimu are fine. |
| 61.
| 1/14/2009 3:07:00 PM | not sure if we are getting the best bang for the buck... need to refactor this area of our operation |
| 62.
| 1/14/2009 3:30:00 PM | we like slicehost but dont like to do server setup (it is automated, but still) |
| 63.
| 1/14/2009 3:31:00 PM | At home I use hostingrails.com and at work everything is hosted in house. |
| 64.
| 1/14/2009 3:50:00 PM | Slicehost Rocks, Amazon EC2 is great for scaling, EngineYard has been super helpful troubleshooting and for preformance (but is expensive) |
| 65.
| 1/14/2009 4:37:00 PM | Engine Yard ++ |
| 66.
| 1/14/2009 5:26:00 PM | Slow, still using FastCGI, gems out of date... |
| 67.
| 1/14/2009 5:41:00 PM | I'm more than satisfied for my personal projects, but my current host (slicehost) is a bit much for clients that want to maintain their own servers (i.e. can't afford to pay someone to maintain them) |
| 68.
| 1/14/2009 5:45:00 PM | Hosting is fine, need better tools for scalability and |
| 69.
| 1/14/2009 5:56:00 PM | they have been very quick to get back with issues, and there have been very few-- |
| 70.
| 1/14/2009 5:57:00 PM | Very good support, cool guys, nice website with good interface and fair prices. |
| 71.
| 1/14/2009 7:23:00 PM | Engineyard is awesome for production, but it's expensive. I use Rimu for a basic rails stack and then I do the rest for smaller apps and staging / demo sites |
| 72.
| 1/14/2009 7:45:00 PM | Slicehost has been great for me, providing plenty of technical articles to show me what to do, but still letting me do everything. Sometimes, though, setting up a slice can be more effort than it's worth. |
| 73.
| 1/14/2009 11:11:00 PM | Running cloud based rails apps could be easier. Otherwise we are getting close to a simple solution for smaller scale implementations. |
| 74.
| 1/15/2009 12:56:00 AM | I am happy but only because of the many sleepless nights getting everything installed. |
| 75.
| 1/15/2009 12:59:00 AM | rimuhosting.com |
| 76.
| 1/15/2009 1:18:00 AM | Over the past 6 months our hosting provider has lacked on their response time to support requests and there engineers have always lacked attention to detail, it takes multiple attempts for them to get things right.
They should either charge us less for their services or offer better support. |
| 77.
| 1/15/2009 3:39:00 AM | using site5 kinda wish they would start using passenger |
| 78.
| 1/15/2009 8:15:00 AM | I'd like to deploy to Amazon EC2 painlessly. I want to simply choose the type of architecture i need (all-in-one or share nothing or something in middle) and deploy and then pay only for the time its up. |
| 79.
| 1/15/2009 9:12:00 AM | railsplayground |
| 80.
| 1/15/2009 3:25:00 PM | I'm a total novice with this stuff and they've been absolutely gracious with their time and help. |
| 81.
| 1/15/2009 6:15:00 PM | A little slow on command line |
| 82.
| 1/15/2009 6:18:00 PM | now that passenger is so prolific, I'm much more satisfied than I used to be. |
| 83.
| 1/15/2009 7:59:00 PM | slicehost.com has great prices and there docs were so good it was no problem to set up Apache, databases etc. It would have been nice to have an instance with a Rails stack installed |
| 84.
| 1/15/2009 8:11:00 PM | Slicehost is really, really, really great. I feel like I've found my home. |
| 85.
| 1/15/2009 8:29:00 PM | it's still extremely hard to find people that are capable of hosting Rails for a descent price with acceptable service levels. But it gets better |
| 86.
| 1/15/2009 8:32:00 PM | Using EngineYard - really like their initial setup tools (huge timesaver as far as configuration goes) and monitoring of environment health. |
| 87.
| 1/15/2009 8:51:00 PM | Engine Yard rocks!! but it is sometimes fun to do it all yourself. |
| 88.
| 1/16/2009 2:15:00 AM | On so many of these questions I would have checked 2 or 3 options if I was able, especially on the database and monitoring questions. |
| 89.
| 1/16/2009 2:26:00 AM | ServerBeach has been exceptionally good for me. A basic install of Linux on a good box, a solid network connection, and let me manage all the software and such. That's what I wanted, and what I got. |
| 90.
| 1/16/2009 3:02:00 AM | Serverbeach. Love them. |
| 91.
| 1/16/2009 3:02:00 AM | slow to respond |
| 92.
| 1/16/2009 3:10:00 AM | Slicehost is great :) |
| 93.
| 1/16/2009 4:08:00 AM | Slicehost rocks. Engine Yard rocks. I'm happy. |
| 94.
| 1/16/2009 7:20:00 AM | No rails hosting in France yet, we would rather not deal with the hosting ourselves. |
| 95.
| 1/16/2009 8:45:00 AM | Has worked like I wanted. |
| 96.
| 1/16/2009 9:29:00 AM | Linode is totally kick ass |
| 97.
| 1/16/2009 9:32:00 AM | I need to get my head round puppet (or chef). |
| 98.
| 1/16/2009 9:40:00 AM | Slicehost is cheap, powerful and has great support |
| 99.
| 1/16/2009 9:50:00 AM | I can't stand my sysadmin, he's terrible in doing his job on time. Laze bastard! |
| 100.
| 1/16/2009 11:44:00 AM | I use Rimu hosting and it's admin console had severe security flaws. I took my time to report the issues and explain them, but was not compensated a cent. |
| 101.
| 1/16/2009 12:11:00 PM | Not enough root server solutions. We would need smaller and cheaper ones.
The service is quite good. |
| 102.
| 1/16/2009 2:05:00 PM | Slice host is the single best hosting experience I have ever had in 7+ years . PERIOD. |
| 103.
| 1/16/2009 2:08:00 PM | Linode hasn't let me down so far. I'm recommending it to my friends! |
| 104.
| 1/16/2009 4:23:00 PM | Extremely happy with Slicehost, for what it is. Will eventually need something more managed in the future. |
| 105.
| 1/16/2009 7:55:00 PM | No phone support, if we have an issue it takes upwards of 24 hours to resolve. |
| 106.
| 1/16/2009 8:33:00 PM | We host with Rackspace and though they're sometimes a pain (you have to be very explicit with them or they'll miss steps or screw up, and they've got more processes than anyone I've worked with before), they keep our boxes up and running and backed up and we're now using their Utility NAS product which is working quite nicely. |
| 107.
| 1/16/2009 10:27:00 PM | They don't provide enough value for what they charge |
| 108.
| 1/17/2009 12:51:00 AM | self hosted |
| 109.
| 1/17/2009 3:20:00 AM | I'm using Joyent, they have 3-5 reboots per year. They don't bother notifying me, I have to notify them. When I asked what happened, they won't supply details. Also, some software is extremely hard to compile on Solaris (and I'm an expert). |
| 110.
| 1/17/2009 4:47:00 PM | www.railshosting.cz |
| 111.
| 1/17/2009 6:16:00 PM | My server, my rules. :c) |
| 112.
| 1/17/2009 10:20:00 PM | Linode provides a stable environment and the flexibility to do whatever I like. |
| 113.
| 1/18/2009 11:03:00 AM | Rimuhosting is just great when it comes to expertise, advice, support, solving outages (if they do happen, which is rare). Also, as long as you don't ask to change the world, they don't charge for actually helping you out with certain setups. |
| 114.
| 1/18/2009 11:25:00 AM | Good uptime, good support when one of my raid1 disks failed, but they suck when it comes to reporting their mistakes or apologising. |
| 115.
| 1/18/2009 11:32:00 PM | Slicehost rocks. |
| 116.
| 1/19/2009 3:00:00 PM | I control everything. What else can you want? |
| 117.
| 1/19/2009 9:02:00 PM | I like the ease of a shared environment - not having to worry about backups or anything, but hate the limits imposed. Ideally I would have a VPS where a Rails stack is preinstalled (and not have to do it myself through deprec), with automated backups included. |
| 118.
| 1/20/2009 4:35:00 AM | Linode is superb. |
| 119.
| 1/20/2009 1:37:00 PM | I prefer Heroku, but I have used Rimu, who are excellent. |
| 120.
| 1/21/2009 6:20:00 AM | Currently using Slicehost. Very happy. |
| 121.
| 1/21/2009 2:41:00 PM | Slicehost articles are great, and easy to follow. I like their manager as well. |
| 122.
| 1/22/2009 3:04:00 AM | Slicehost rocks. |
| 123.
| 1/22/2009 10:45:00 AM | FUCK i hate deploying. cap this, motherfucker. |
| 124.
| 1/22/2009 11:00:00 AM | EngineYard is great |
| 125.
| 1/22/2009 9:43:00 PM | if managed hosting was cheaper I'd switch, but not likely. I'd rather do the work myself and save money. |
| 126.
| 1/23/2009 4:12:00 PM | For some apps, I have used MediaTemple, both the GridServer and their VDS. MediaTemple sucks. Its that simple. They charge too much for what they do, which is nothing. Customer support is a total joke. Their grid is constantly up and down - although lately it seems more stable.
OCS so far seems good and now my choice for lower level hosting - definitely if I try to hand of customer support (which I try to do). Their customer service is great so far (for clients) - plus they are really helpful to me if I run into a jam. They can scale up well too, although I haven't done that there with them yet.
Slicehost of course rocks 100%. Their customer service is top, price is great, uptime and response to issues are all superb.
Rackspace hasn't seemed to help much with Rails apps, they just don't have the experience there - about to try EngineYard. |
| 127.
| 1/24/2009 5:34:00 PM | we used planetargon, but could not believe the lack of service and low performance. switchted to amazon a few months ago. |
| 128.
| 1/24/2009 8:46:00 PM | Engine Yard Rocks! :-) |
| 129.
| 1/25/2009 4:58:00 PM | Slicehost has been very dependable and affordable. |
| 130.
| 1/25/2009 5:21:00 PM | So far so good. I keep a lot of snapshots so in the times of hardware failure (twice in a year), it takes relatively little time to get back up and running. It's fast. |
| 131.
| 1/25/2009 5:54:00 PM | It would be nice if it were a bit faster, but for my needs it's enough (heavy caching FTW!) |
| 132.
| 1/25/2009 6:43:00 PM | Dreamhost is kind of a pain when it comes to asking for updates of gems (e.g. a new rack gem to be able to use the current sinatra framework) |
| 133.
| 1/25/2009 6:50:00 PM | I use both Slicehost and Linode. Personally prefer latter because it's low cost, very flexible, and has good uptime. |
| 134.
| 1/25/2009 6:53:00 PM | 30€/month dedicated servers, with unlimited 100Mbps, it's ok. |
| 135.
| 1/25/2009 7:27:00 PM | VPS needs more performance |
| 136.
| 1/25/2009 7:29:00 PM | Slicehost is awesome. |
| 137.
| 1/25/2009 7:30:00 PM | Mostly pleased with RailsPlayground VPS and Dreamhost's setup of shared servers (although not their speed, obviously) |
| 138.
| 1/25/2009 7:30:00 PM | our company's IT dept -- enough said ;) |
| 139.
| 1/25/2009 7:52:00 PM | My app don't save anything in production. I'm frustated. |
| 140.
| 1/25/2009 8:23:00 PM | Linode |
| 141.
| 1/25/2009 8:50:00 PM | Webbynode > * |
| 142.
| 1/25/2009 8:58:00 PM | Very hit and miss performance, and uptime |
| 143.
| 1/25/2009 9:28:00 PM | RailsMachine is a competent, smart, and efficient hosting company with a great deal of hosting expertise. |
| 144.
| 1/25/2009 9:41:00 PM | slicehost ftw |
| 145.
| 1/25/2009 9:44:00 PM | To expensive for too little resources |
| 146.
| 1/25/2009 9:53:00 PM | Using OVH, and sometimes their commercial offers are not really clear (=honest). I'll take a look @ aws soon. |
| 147.
| 1/25/2009 10:12:00 PM | So so. OPn site5. They don't use passenger and you are limited on what can be installed.
I like have the flexibility I get with my own internal servers. |
| 148.
| 1/25/2009 10:20:00 PM | It's hard finding quality datacenter space and network providers. |
| 149.
| 1/25/2009 10:36:00 PM | Mine is with heroku.com. My only concern is their pricing model when it comes out. |
| 150.
| 1/25/2009 10:50:00 PM | Was with Engine Yard, were not happy with them and have since moved. |
| 151.
| 1/25/2009 11:42:00 PM | With small low volume sites slice host is wonderful. They are amazingly helpful and I like being able to experiment on my one little virtual server. It continues to be a great learning experience. |
| 152.
| 1/26/2009 1:59:00 AM | I'm on media temple for 2 apps. For the next one, I think I'm going to be doing slicehost. |
| 153.
| 1/26/2009 2:10:00 AM | I've been with slicehost for 2 years and they've been there as my linux, deployment, and administration skills have moved from novice to competent. Their prices, resources, help have made me a customer and kept me steering my clients to them as well. Their CampFire room has always been welcoming....When you're really frustrated and tired of looking at the same problem, you can ask them without the condescending RTFM you find in IRC. |
| 154.
| 1/26/2009 5:24:00 AM | I use Rimuhosting. Everytime I hear about a new host/service/situation I investigate and then talk myself out of it on the "It ain't broke so don't fix it" principle. |
| 155.
| 1/26/2009 7:06:00 AM | I really don't want to have to support my stack, but I don't see many affordable options. Unlike PHP, where I can get a full stack really cheap, rails stacks tend to be quite expensive. |
| 156.
| 1/26/2009 11:49:00 AM | Easier deployment, better development! |
| 157.
| 1/26/2009 12:37:00 PM | Slicehost just rules (in terms of stability, support, articles and not-getting-in-my-way-unless-asked-to) |
| 158.
| 1/26/2009 1:13:00 PM | i'm a one man shop and cannot be stressed about keeping everyone of my sites running. Unfortunately i cannot convince my clients it's worth paying for. The new heroku stuff sounds like it could be great (pay what you use) but we'll see. |
| 159.
| 1/26/2009 1:22:00 PM | site5 is not competent for Rails hosting |
| 160.
| 1/26/2009 1:23:00 PM | I use VPSLink the price is right! |
| 161.
| 1/26/2009 6:44:00 PM | Slicehost is still the best thing since sliced bread. |
| 162.
| 1/26/2009 8:39:00 PM | deploying rails is just a pain. it's not my provider's fault... its just the way it is. sweet baby jesus make the pain stop |
| 163.
| 1/26/2009 10:33:00 PM | We're looking for hosting in the UK as most of our customers are in the UK. Expecting to get better performance (fewer hops to get to the server and moving up from shared hosting), and planned outages that fit the GMT0BST timezone. |
| 164.
| 1/26/2009 11:58:00 PM | Slicehost is awesome. |
| 165.
| 1/27/2009 12:23:00 AM | Slicehost rocks! |
| 166.
| 1/27/2009 3:16:00 AM | needs to improve the plans, better out of th box solution like having a script to install substruct or things like that. |
| 167.
| 1/27/2009 7:39:00 AM | It's just a virtual box running Debian, which is nice. But it could be a bit faster. |
| 168.
| 1/27/2009 8:30:00 AM | Contegix is the best hosting company in the world. |
| 169.
| 1/27/2009 11:08:00 AM | in process of moving to slicehost, I'm pretty sure I'll be happy there :-) |
| 170.
| 1/27/2009 12:58:00 PM | engine yard is the bomb but pricey; can only use them with other peoples money (VC). heroku should rock but they consistently have problems ... but hopefully that's the future of Rails deployment. Slicehost is good for what they do, but in small start-ups time to manage the app is hard to come by so I'm using them less and less. "here's my app, make it run, and keep it running" ... that's what the community needs. And not crazy expensive (or crazy cheap). |
| 171.
| 1/27/2009 1:28:00 PM | (self-hosted) I need to upgrade. Always need to upgrade. Never enough time/energy/beer to make the upgrade. ;) |
| 172.
| 1/27/2009 1:39:00 PM | Not enough RoR hosters... We have to rent a dedicated server... |
| 173.
| 1/27/2009 5:09:00 PM | I use amazon for applications that have highly varying scaling requirements and Boxcar for the smaller sites (Engine Yard at work). |
| 174.
| 1/27/2009 5:14:00 PM | Everything working good and cost effective. Just a lot of room for improvement and tooling. |
| 175.
| 1/27/2009 5:17:00 PM | Brightbox, very happy with them. |
| 176.
| 1/27/2009 5:18:00 PM | managed hosting is too expensive, unmanaged too manual |
| 177.
| 1/27/2009 5:26:00 PM | I'm probably getting what I pay for. They do tend to get back to me when I email with questions. Because I'm on shared hosting and hosting a couple blogs in addition to my main site, every once-in-a-while they shut down everything for using too much RAM. Eventually I'll probably move to a Virtual Private Server, but in the mean time I'm just looking for a way to replace the Passenger error page with something a little more appropriate. |
| 178.
| 1/27/2009 6:14:00 PM | Slicehost does what it needs to do. Nothing more. I also use Dreamhost for other things. Dreamhost is exception, despite being a bit slow. |
| 179.
| 1/27/2009 6:15:00 PM | Rackspace has made some big mistakes |
| 180.
| 1/27/2009 6:29:00 PM | Khomodo.com is a phenomenal hosting provider. |
| 181.
| 1/27/2009 6:38:00 PM | Prices are competitive and customer support is really great. |
| 182.
| 1/27/2009 7:04:00 PM | ec2onrails - simple, awesome, but a bit expensive. |
| 183.
| 1/27/2009 7:07:00 PM | see answer to question #30 |
| 184.
| 1/27/2009 7:14:00 PM | I wish it was cheaper and easier and better etc. etc. |
| 185.
| 1/27/2009 7:49:00 PM | Amazon EC2 is amazingly flexible and price-effective, as long as you can afford the lowest package. |
| 186.
| 1/27/2009 7:58:00 PM | Dreamhost was painful and awful, Linode is a godsend. |
| 187.
| 1/27/2009 7:59:00 PM | We have also used Joyent and I've been very unhappy. Solaris is a total nightmare and we have invested tremendous human capital in basic things like getting common gems to work. |
| 188.
| 1/27/2009 9:20:00 PM | Need more ram |
| 189.
| 1/27/2009 9:51:00 PM | phusion passenger got rid of a ton of headaches for me. I love it. Slicehost has been great for the msot part, as well. |
| 190.
| 1/27/2009 9:51:00 PM | it's free. they forgot to bill us. I emailed them about it, no response.... it's been over a year. |
| 191.
| 1/27/2009 10:02:00 PM | Some providers don't know jack about web applications. For instance: No we cannot apply that patch for ruby because there is no debian package for it |
| 192.
| 1/27/2009 10:17:00 PM | In house deals with larger companies means we can't switch. |
| 193.
| 1/27/2009 10:59:00 PM | Until there is a good Basic Rails stack, Slicehost does exactly what I want - Basic OS, reliable, fast, great tutorials, and decent price. |
| 194.
| 1/27/2009 11:49:00 PM | well enough, but things could be better... thinking about moving to EY |
| 195.
| 1/28/2009 12:04:00 AM | mediatemple = suck. Moving site to my own server until i can evaluate other solutions. spend all my time rebooting apps. |
| 196.
| 1/28/2009 1:21:00 AM | When EC2 gets cleaner tools for auto-scaling (like, where it happens while I'm asleep) without me having to use Puppet then I'll be happy. |
| 197.
| 1/28/2009 5:59:00 AM | I've used a number of shared hosting companies (xen, openvz) and most of them have significant performance problems mainly I/O. |
| 198.
| 1/28/2009 6:45:00 AM | Mac OS X Server is actually pretty damn slick for Rails hosting. Before Passenger, I could run a pack of Mongrels and manage it from the Server Admin app. After, I don't even need that, I just need Server Admin for Apache. |
| 199.
| 1/28/2009 9:12:00 AM | VPSland are cheap but crap. |
| 200.
| 1/28/2009 11:26:00 AM | slicehost is closer to amazon EC2 than VPS systems. Or said differently, if Slicehost is basic VPS then EC2 should also be considered VPS too, don't you think? |
| 201.
| 1/28/2009 11:58:00 AM | Railsplayground is exactly what i need right now. Low maintenance shared hosting. The app isn't critical or high performance otherwise I'd go with a vps at least. |
| 202.
| 1/28/2009 12:42:00 PM | VPS performance is an issue |
| 203.
| 1/28/2009 3:38:00 PM | I do it myself and wouldn't have it any other way. |
| 204.
| 1/28/2009 5:10:00 PM | the different levels of hosting each provided advantages (less work) and disadvantages (lack of availability of certain services), so it's a case of choosing the right one for the right job |
| 205.
| 1/28/2009 5:16:00 PM | Good support system in place. |
| 206.
| 1/28/2009 5:17:00 PM | Use ServerBeach, and have several private datacenters. |
| 207.
| 1/28/2009 5:36:00 PM | But I am always willing to experiment. |
| 208.
| 1/28/2009 5:41:00 PM | Would like more memory. |
| 209.
| 1/28/2009 6:27:00 PM | They are cheap, fast, and reliable. And they have a decent API. |
| 210.
| 1/29/2009 1:25:00 AM | I'd settle for less bandwidth and more memory. |
| 211.
| 1/29/2009 1:57:00 AM | I wouldn't dream of switching to another host. Even if it was free. |
| 212.
| 1/29/2009 5:12:00 AM | Slicehost is fantastic |
| 213.
| 1/29/2009 10:45:00 AM | rimuhosting are awesome |
| 214.
| 1/29/2009 12:55:00 PM | Would like something to install core software to VM, looked at Puppet but not had time to use. |
| 215.
| 1/30/2009 5:41:00 PM | We are bootstrapping an application. Our setup has worked so far for myself as a developer, but long-term we want to get out of the business of being server admins so we can just run the application. |
| 216.
| 1/30/2009 6:27:00 PM | Can't currently afford Engine Yard like service... |
| 217.
| 1/31/2009 3:24:00 AM | ebound host is a good host. |
| 218.
| 2/2/2009 9:04:00 PM | They're not really helpful on the Rails subject... |
| 219.
| 2/3/2009 6:58:00 AM | They are alright, but they are not what I would consider an ideal environment for hosting Rails applications |
| 220.
| 2/3/2009 11:01:00 AM | yes and no, I have plesk installed on one box but it is horrible to use with ROR |