I can attest to Slicehost, which Michael suggested.  I have used it for
several projects.  One has java/tomcat intensive
applications--Cocoon/Solr/Orbeon.  The other is running game servers haha.
It'll run Rails as well as anything, although I have not used slicehost for
that in particular.  I think it's a great service.  Both systems I manage
are running Ubuntu 8.04.

Ethan

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
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>
> > -----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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>