I'm a big fan of Heroku as well. Another option, although they aren't specifically rails-oriented, is dreamhost.com
Pros - - Cheap -- Unlimited domains (excluding registration) bandwidth, storage, shell accounts, email addresses, mailing lists, etc all for under $10/month. (They also have occasional first-year-free offers.) - Free hosting for 501(c)3 charities. - Very spiffy web-based control panel - A broad range of preloaded software and 1-click installs offered. - Rails available via Apache/Passenger. (NOT a 1-click install) - VERY reliable. (I know, I shouldn't say that ... tempting the gods and all that.) They are a fairly "grown up" company - 300K customers on 4K servers. - Free two week trial. Cons - - Default configuration supports ruby 1.8.7 and rails 3.0.9 only. - No customer access to the system-wide error logs. i.e. silent failure on config/start-up errors. Once your process is up and running your logfiles will work. But if the error is early enough (e.g. syntax error in a config file) you have to contact tech support and ask them to look at the error output for you. So type carefully. - PostgreSQL not supported. (They say "maybe someday".) - Mediocre system documentation. - Bare-bones tech support in general and for ruby/rails in particular. And if you stray from their ruby/rails defaults you are completely on your own. So if you have a bunch of domains, not so much money, and are comfortable on the *nix command line, they are worth looking at. But if you want to keep things simple, go with Heroku. Dan Nachbar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/gw1THtn9wMgJ. 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
