yea godaddy is no fun.. try rimuhosting.com (awesome support/prices) been using them for years..
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Ian Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Godaddy is terrible. You get what you pay for. > I've setup a rails environment on MediaTemple and it was a tremendous pain > in the ass. They have a proprietary "mtr" application that you need to use > to install anything. Problem is you don't get any errors when gems install > incorrectly and you end up on the phone with a tech just to get the > environment setup. I was on a slice and it was extremely slow. I wouldn't > recommend them. > > I have a lot of friends who speak highly about joyent. And if you can > convince them you're a facebook application, they give you a year of hosting > free. Quite the deal. > > Engine yard is an excellent route if you have the money. They'll handle > everything and you just concentrate on development. That and they have some > big names in the Ruby community working there. > > I'm sure there's others but these are the ones I'm familiar with. > > And I completely agree with Adam about Passenger (aka mod_rails). It's > amazing, switched over from mongrel cluster and haven't looked back. > > ian > > On Sep 8, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Adam Grant wrote: > > Haven't deployed rails 2.1.1, but we have all our (<= 2.1) apps on Rails > Playground VPS setups. They used to run using lighttpd/fastcgi as the > default, but now that Phusion Passenger is out, we are deploying to that, > and it's sOOO much easier than lighttpd/fastcgi. It's a pleasure to deploy > now. Not sure how they do for large traffic sites, but for small commercial > apps, they have been great, especially with the excellent tech support they > give us. > > But good luck with the GoDaddy thing... > > - Adam > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'm in godaddy hell right now! >> >> Not my choice to host a Rails app there ... but, that is what the >> client wants. So first question, "Does anyone have experience and/or >> advice on pusing a 2.1.1 Rails app onto godaddy?" >> >> Second question, "What hosting providers do you recommend and why?" >> >> I have some other clients that I'll have more a say into where their >> apps live. >> >> Thanks much - Wayde >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
