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I think one thing to consider between Heroku and something like Slicehost, is what exactly you have the resources/willingness to support. One of the things I've really liked is that to get an app running on Heroku is that I basically just have to worry about my Ruby app, not maintaining a server environment. On the other hand, it's somewhat limiting as to what I can do there, so it's not a solution to every problem. -Ross. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Rosalyn Metz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I'm going to recommend slicehost also. Again, I haven't used it but I met > the (former) owner. He sold the business to rackspace, which has an awesome > reputation in the cloud computing world. They are #2 behind amazon. > > Rosalyn > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Doran, Michael D <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a >> while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting >> site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/ >> >> I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want, >> development wise. Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials >> said "The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30 >> minutes." Another said "...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who >> can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month." And yet >> another "...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu >> VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience." >> [1] >> >> Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience. >> >> -- Michael >> >> [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials >> >> # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian >> # University of Texas at Arlington >> # 817-272-5326 office >> # 817-688-1926 mobile >> # [log in to unmask] >> # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >> > Kevin Reiss >> > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM >> > To: [log in to unmask] >> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've >> > had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with >> > bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through >> > a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application >> > properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be >> > moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in >> > advance. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Kevin Reiss >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >