What is a good Ruby on Rails and PHP hosting?

Question

I'm looking Ruby on Rails and PHP hosting service(shared space or a dedicated server). I would like to see two options first before buying one of them:

1. PHP and can upgrade to Ruby on Rails later with additional cost
2. Ruby on Rails and PHP

I've looked at Dreamhost, Bluehost and RailsPlayground and all of them seem to have pros and cons. Does anyone have experience with either? Does anyone have a different recommendation?

Answer 1

Slicehost is a pretty good option. Manage the "slice" yourself (plenty of tutorials and scripts to build your own slice to host PHP and Rails). Upgrade as needed. Pretty cheap too.

Answer 2

I have dreamhost, while it's cheap and offers a lot of space, it's speed can vary greatly. They have decent PHP support (file_get_contents() is disabled, among other various things). Their Rails support is okay, they offer Phusion Passenger(http://www.modrails.com/) to host your Rails apps.

Answer 3

Se my comments here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162144/what-is-a-good-ruby-on-rails-hosting-service/162213#162213

Dreamhost is a great option. You can run both PHP and Rails and with Private Server option you can move sites that need more resources to a more dedicated platform.

Answer 4

checout http://heroku.com , they're intended to make rails deployment easy

Answer 5

Mediatemple provides both. I've never had any issues with them

Answer 6

Check out our shared Rails cluster 30 days for free at http://en.railscluster.nl. It runs PHP 5 too!