Rails Application Hosting

Question

Where do you host your rails applications? I've tried Heroku and Slicehost. I thought I would ask you, the knowledgeable guys here at stack-overflow, for hosting recommendations.

Thanks in advance

-- Deb

Answer 1

We're hosting our app at Brightbox. Snap to setup and scales very nicely.

They even have a gem that helps deploy with capistrano.

Probably more expensive than some of the others but it's good if you don't want to spend too much time doing system admin.

Answer 2

Hi Deb

I havent tried lots of hosting providers But Railsplayground (www.railsplayground.com) has a quit good plan for beginners like starting from 5$/M

Their options are good and most of all they have a very good customer support. coz when I'm having issues with my app they were really helpful

And they have a good uptime also for the last 1 year or so i didnt get any site-down complains from my client (:D)

Please not that I'm talking here about a small app. so if you are looking for starter plans i think 'Railsplayground' might be a god option

cheers sameera

Answer 3

I am using Heroku for all of my development and staging. I also have several production systems running on it for clients.

I was previously using Dreamhost, but I have found that the free Heroku service performs better than a Rails app on a shared Dreamhost account. Also, Heroku has much better availability and incredible support for Rails - deployment is trivial.

I have used both Slicehost (a suite of nodes in production up to 2gb) and Linode (entry-level a/c for play) - both are really solid services and excellent value if you have the skills and knowledge to build your own stack.

I worked on a system last year that was deployed with RailsMachine. We migrated from Slicehost systems we were running ourselves to the RailsMachine stack and the difference in performance was incredible. Huge benefits from having a professionally tuned stack run by serious experts. If you have the budget, definitely worth a look.

Also note: Heroku is not quite shared and Slicehost is not quite dedicated. Both provide virtual servers that are isolated and protected from other applications.

Also check: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162144/what-is-a-good-ruby-on-rails-hosting-service/162213

And: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2075920/heroku-in-real-life-apps/2121570

Answer 4

I have a reseller acount on site5.com since 2008 and they are great.. I don't have so much trouble with them and when i have a trouble with host, i talk with them online chat support from Istanbul, Turkey and they solve quickly. I recommend them.

Answer 5

I've been really happy with a dedicated cloud server from Rackspace @ ~$10 per month.