I went through the same thing a couple of years ago, both for myself and for some clients I was doing performance work for. What I learned was:
1. Most VPS hosting providers are very vague about their hardware specs and what fraction of a multiverse server you are paying for. There are well known, reputable companies that will charge you $200/month for 1/8 of a physical core, whilst others charge $45 for a single core. That's a ratio of 32 to 1! 2. Capacity planning and performance tuning of virtual machines is hard. I've been doing it for six years and I was stunned by the inattention and lack of technical competence shown by some hosting companies. Over provisioning, misconfiguration and plain broken infrastructure abound. Be careful who you choose and adopt the Reagan slogan of "trust but verify" I found that i got the best hardware bang for the Buck from a specialist gaming server hosting company that rents out VPS on their surplus hardware. The late cues are excellent which is the crucial variable when you want a fast site. You have a better chance of avoiding over provisioning with a provider that uses Xen because Xen doesn't do memory over subscription. 3. There are a bunch of cool, slick Linux distributions available yet the most practical for serving a website is boring old RedHat/Centos. 4. The hobo solr recipe plus the solr website should be enough to configure a basic solr/rails install. Hope this helps, Peter On Mar 7, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Scorpio <[email protected]> wrote: > I know it's a bit offtopic and for that I'm sorry but this community > saved my behind on a number of occasions. > > Due to lack of an affordable RoR 3 host that's actually worth > something I'm gonna be setting up a vps webhost of my own, nginx, rvm, > shell, mysql,(long list) the works. But just today I read an awesome > tutorial on Sunspot by kevinpfromnm (Thanks m8!) and I'd like to > integrate that into a major app that I've been building for quite some > time. > Solr is required for that and as I do know how to setup a proper Rails > 3 host with nginx and webmin(+rails support) for the most part (sure > there will be stuff to figure out but hell.. got most of it in my > head) I've got no idea how to combine that with Solr. > > Any thoughts /resources / places to ask would be great! > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hobo Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
