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Until now I'm setting up my own development environment with Vagrant/VirtualBox/Chef (Ruby).

I wonder if there is a hosting company that provides pre-configured VPS for...

  • Ruby/Rails
  • Javascript/Node

...letting me just choose what I want to have installed and also which linux packages I would like to install in each VPS.

Are there hosting companies providing this?

A: 

Heroku has "experimental" node.js support (and obviously Rails).

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_experimental/

Dave Ward
But Heroku is mainly for production use. I want to have a VPS I can develop in and then just push it to Heroku.
never_had_a_name
If you're considering a VPS anyway, what's the difference? If you want something more local, just for development, I like Ubuntu running in VirtualBox for node.js experimentation.
Dave Ward