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If not, what is your biggest concern?
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1. 1/13/2009 8:18:00 PMSolvency.
2. 1/13/2009 8:48:00 PMDon't want to have to back up my SQL data manually.
3. 1/13/2009 8:52:00 PMInability to install anything properly and quickly, which i can do on my mac or on linux
4. 1/13/2009 9:39:00 PMPrice and uptime
5. 1/13/2009 11:52:00 PMbalancing uptime with price is always difficult
6. 1/14/2009 6:46:00 AMWould like to switch to a scaleable cloud...
7. 1/14/2009 11:57:00 AMprice and scalability
8. 1/14/2009 3:31:00 PMI have issues with hosting companies telling me that they have Passenger and then when I ask to be switched they try to talk me out of it.
9. 1/14/2009 4:33:00 PMscalability
10. 1/14/2009 8:05:00 PMOccasional operational problems + Solaris difficulties with rails & gems, etc
11. 1/15/2009 6:18:00 PMmost rails only hosting is too damn expensive
12. 1/15/2009 8:29:00 PMAll of the above, in various mixtures :)
13. 1/16/2009 2:15:00 AMnot automated
14. 1/16/2009 7:20:00 AMLack of hosting knowledge in case things go wrong.. it's an hard job
15. 1/16/2009 9:32:00 AMDisaster recovery and maintainability
16. 1/16/2009 11:44:00 AMThere always seems to be a better way to do things in rails (new plugins, new deployment stacks, new rails features, etc) so it's difficult to keep app up to date. Also some plugins break with Rails updates.
17. 1/16/2009 9:23:00 PMnone
18. 1/18/2009 11:32:00 PMNo, really, Slicehost rocks.
19. 1/20/2009 1:37:00 PMheroku is still in beta
20. 1/22/2009 2:16:00 PMlack of an easy Rails deployment setup for shared hosting accounts
21. 1/23/2009 4:12:00 PMdepends on the project and needs
22. 1/25/2009 5:03:00 PMInitial setup is a pain
23. 1/25/2009 5:44:00 PMConcerned about the recent aquisition by Rackspace.
24. 1/25/2009 6:10:00 PMI am happy, but this is still my biggest concern.
25. 1/25/2009 6:44:00 PMSecurity, disaster planning
26. 1/25/2009 6:50:00 PMPrice and Stability 50/50. Saying I care just about stability or just about price == saying I'm stupid
27. 1/25/2009 6:53:00 PMHaving to play sysadmin when it's not what I like doing.
28. 1/25/2009 7:30:00 PMcustomer support is the biggest issue when it comes to non-cheap hosting. (mt)'s setup process for the grid server was terrible, and usually good support was not much help.
29. 1/26/2009 1:13:00 PMI need it to be stable, but i can't afford the big guys.
30. 1/26/2009 9:33:00 PMPrice/RAM/CPU
31. 1/27/2009 7:39:00 AMSpeed
32. 1/27/2009 5:14:00 PMAutomation to improve efficiency
33. 1/27/2009 7:14:00 PMSysadmin
34. 1/27/2009 8:41:00 PMVPS Performance
35. 1/27/2009 10:17:00 PMIn house deals with larger companies means we can't switch.
36. 1/28/2009 2:07:00 AMNot familiar with the specific OS environment with rails
37. 1/28/2009 12:42:00 PMPerformance
38. 1/28/2009 5:36:00 PMSupport levels vary, obviously.
39. 1/28/2009 8:22:00 PMit's not really done.
40. 1/29/2009 1:25:00 AMSeems to be based off memory.