It all depends on the size of the deployment and the complexity of your stack. That said, I have generally been in favor of using EC2 or rackspace cloud. The biggest difference here is more work is put on you, as they are instance providers, and you are responsible for provisioning those instances. Getting a redundant web app running this way requires more work, but you control your destiny. Getting familiar with chef or something similar can make managing your deployments easier (more work up front though).
If you want a more hands off approach, engine yard is a good alternative. --Dan On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Kevin Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey SDRuby, > > After experiencing too much instability that we could do nothing about, > we've decided to move off of Heroku, and are currently evaluating our > options. I want to throw out the question to the community: What hosting > providers do you use for Rails applications? What have been the ups and > downs of those providers? Do you have strong recommendations of providers > to use or avoid? Thanks much, > > -Kevin > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
