I've also been happy with Rails Machine. I started with one VPS and now have three. Bradley's support has been terrific and the price/ performance for my needs is very good.
Rails Machine provides excellent, independent VPS slices (or dedicated boxes). Their "cluster", however, is just multiple of these, which it is up to you to configure. If you want fail-over, you need to set up DRBD to mirror the systems. The database runs on the same box as Apache/Mongrel in the standard Rails Machine setup. A three-VPS setup is around $200/month. Engine Yard takes this to another level. They have hardware load balancers, and the DB runs on its own cluster, mail on its own server, etc. You get better redundancy and load balancing without having to set all that up yourself. BUT - it is much more expensive. A three- slice setup (two for production, one for staging) at Engine Yard is $900/month. I've found that I had to learn a fair amount of Linux sysadmin to deal with the Rails Machine VPS effectively. I don't know if there would be more or less of this needed with Engine Yard. That's what I've gleaned, in any case -- Ezra, Bradley, please chime in if I've misunderstood any of this. Michael Slater at Rails Machine: www.mslater.com, www.newhorizonschool.info, www.doyleparkfamilymedicine.com On Mar 19, 6:00 am, Mike Dershowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] s.net> wrote: > Hi: > > What does the community think about railsmachine as a service? Their > service looks pretty good. Anyone had any good/bad experience? > > Mike > > -- > Posted viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
