rails hosting

[rob]

Hello! My current hosting company does not support rails unless I upgrade to some special account (which is double current price), I have a personal little project that I'd like to deploy. So any inexpensive suggestions? I'll upgrade if I don't find anything reasonable, just thought I'd see if anyone here had some info...
thanks,
-rob

[Greg Hester]

Hi Rob,

I use BlueHost.com and they support Rails. I must confess that I'm not deployed anything to them yet that is a Rails application but it appears to be all setup and ready to go. Also, they have some pretty attractive pricing $6.95 per month and unlimited storage. GoDaddy.com also supports Rails for about the same price but not with the unlimited storage.

[Scott Murphy]

I've tried to deploy in bluehost.com about a year ago and would personally would not recommend it. It's possible but it was a headache to get things working.

I use hostingrails.com for my small rails apps and found them to be pretty good. I think their fastcgi account starts at $8/month.

[Seth Ladd]

Sorry I'm a bit late to this discussion. But,

- dreamhost is a pretty good option
- only find hosts that use Passenger Phusion (do NOT use fast cgi)

Of course, everything is relative to what you're will to spend. Slicehost is a great option for a VPS, but Dreamhost is fine for a shared site.

[Mattias]

My rails sites were deployed to my VPS at Knownhost a few months ago without any problems. Everything has worked great. I really recommend Knownhost. I'm at their California data center. You can check my site at http://www.ramen808.com

[Ken Mayer]

Greg Hester said:

Hi Rob,

GoDaddy.com also supports Rails for about the same price but not with the unlimited storage.

GoDaddy is a pain. They don't allow shell access, so you can't run migrations. Download and then uploading migrated data from your dev system is okay when you're data set is small, but what if it's a couple gigs? FAIL.

[Nizwer Husain]

I have signed up for Rails hosting with lunarpages.com (shared hosting). The only complaint I have is that it does not easily support multiple Rails applications. Have to learn how to do that before I can post an opinion. For the initial application setup I had to get the admins involved before I got a sample app up and running. Whatever I develop on my laptop I have to make some changes to the paths before I push it to the server. Have to learn how to minimize that or eliminate it completely with proper configuration (equivalent of a Java war file perhaps).

[Timothy Little]

I know this is late for you but in case others need to know about hosting...

I've recently deployed multiple rails projects to hostingrails.com. For about $6/month you can have multiple rails apps on fast cgi. For a little more you can add a mongrel cluster. They have great tech support and a scalable plan to let you upgrade as you go need/desire.

There are currently running 2.3.2 as their with many of the latest gems installed but they do allow/support running on any version of rails and gems frozen into your app. They provide trac support and subversion repository (single-user unless you pay more).

[Seth Ladd]

I really, really recommend staying FAR FAR away from fast cgi. I'm surprised it's supported at in Rails. Phusion Passenger (aka mod_rails) is the shared hosting solution that you want. I know Dreamhost supports mod_rails. I'm sure there are others, too.

[Fred "derfie" Baclig]

Google heroku and mor.ph labs. It's the GAE equivalent for Ruby. They both offer free basic accounts just like GAE.

[Seth Ladd]

That's a great point. Heroku also has a great deployment process. Very quick and automated.