Shared hosting can be a yes-yes solution if it's correctly managed ;) and your site does not have a lot of traffic.
Our shared service at speedyrails.com is performing great, but the secret is that we don't oversell or overload our servers, we just have around 24 mongrel instances per server and this works great. Of course, as any shared service, one site can eat all the resources and affect other customers, but this is not a problem of Rails, and we do our best to avoid this using Monit. Anyway, as Niall said, a VPS can also be a great solution if you like and know about linux admin. In this case, I can also recommend RimuHostig, in my beginnings, before creating SpeedyRails.com I used a RimuHosting VPS (and still have it), their support is simply great. On Feb 12, 6:05 am, "Niall Mullally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Weepy, > I've been looking around for Rails hosting solutions in Ireland/UK the > last couple of weeks and there doesn't appear to be many options over > here. > > I've found that probably the best route to go is to get a VPS and > configure it to your needs. It's more work and if you're not > interested in getting involved in the sys admin side of things then it > may not be your cup of tea. Shared hosting is an absolute no-no for > Rails. > > People on an Irish Ruby discussion group recommended http:// > rimuhosting.com/ who have servers in the London area. > > Seehttp://groups.google.ie/group/ruby_ireland/browse_thread/thread/ > 4cdf17ce2be050bd?hl=en > A few other companies are recommended. > > I have a VPS withhttp://www.xenplanet.com/since last week. They're > an Irish based crowd who are very good value with very helpful and > prompt support. They offer a pre-configured Rails OS image with > Apache/FastCGI but I took a plain Debian install and have setup > Apache2.2/Mongrel running on a 128 meg VPS and it's working nicely. > > Hope that helps. > > Regards, > > Niall Mullallyhttp://www.4L.ie/ > > On Feb 9, 6:47 pm, "weepy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi > > > I have a project to host (production level - mid level traffic) that > > has a predominantly UK audience. Currently I have a media temple grid > > unit, but it's performing badly here in the UK (extra ping time etc). > > > Can anyone recommend any rails hosts that have datacenters in the > > UK ? > > > cheers > > > weepy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
