Shared hosting really just isn't going to be reliable for your app. Topfunky recently did a nice review of Rails hosting options: http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2007/02/24/the-host-with-the-most
I would recommend going w/ a VPS (provided you're able to manage one yourself). Personally, I've been using Slicehost for several months and have had a great experience with them. On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Alonzo wrote: > > Hi. > > I've depolyed my first RoR site, on textdrive, shared server. I was so > happy! my first site is up. A new baby born. > > There's barely any traffic to my site (I currently have 130 users). > However it seems that every time I point my browser to my site I find > myself praying that it will actually be online. And I'm not even a > religious man... > > so about 75% of the times it's there and 25% I get a timeout, and it > makes me very mad. I submit a ticket and get some random answer like > "sorry, somebody on your server deleted their log files so we had to > restart the web server, etc...". I understand that shit happens, and > that I only paid for a shared server but is it too much to ask to have > my site ONLINE almost all the time?? I don't even talk about speed > here. > > After all the setup and work I done on their server I now need to > find a > new hosting company and go through the whole deal again. And maybe the > new host will be bad too... > > advice is very welcomed and appreciated. > > Alonzo. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---