Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
We have linode (http://www.linode.com/) to host our a la Carte program (by Oregon State Univ.). It is pretty good in my opinion. Sarah G. Park Web/Reference Librarian B. D. Owens Library | Northwest Missouri State University (660) 562-1534 | gop...@nwmissouri.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Genny Engel Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:16 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting I have used Sonic.net for the past 10 years because it is run by geeks. Haven't done any Rails on it, but you can build pretty much anything you want on standard tools languages (Perl, PHP, Python, C, Ruby, etc.). For tech support, they have their own newsgroup hierarchy where questions get answered by authoritative sources, like their senior network server admins or the company founder. Also, they recently added two new ways to get their MOTD: twitter and this cracks me up ... gopher ;) Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. +1 for linode, based on personal experience. Ben
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Yet another +1 for Heroku. I've had great experiences with it so far. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at Heroku (http://heroku.com/)? I've only used their freebie plan (so I have no idea how they compare pricewise), but it's been fantastic to get Ruby apps running there. Dreamhost also provides Passenger to their customers (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger) so that might be an option, too. -Ross. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kevin Reiss reiss.ke...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
[CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Have you looked at Heroku (http://heroku.com/)? I've only used their freebie plan (so I have no idea how they compare pricewise), but it's been fantastic to get Ruby apps running there. Dreamhost also provides Passenger to their customers (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger) so that might be an option, too. -Ross. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kevin Reiss reiss.ke...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. I'll second Ross's suggestion to look into Heroku, sounds like a good match for your needs. It's one of the most interesting platform deployment systems I've ever seen. Here's a podcast with one of their reps: http://www.rubyology.com/podcasts/show/84
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Hi Kevin, Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/ I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want, development wise. Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30 minutes. Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month. And yet another ...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience. [1] Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience. -- Michael [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # do...@uta.edu # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Reiss Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Hi Kevin, I'm going to recommend slicehost also. Again, I haven't used it but I met the (former) owner. He sold the business to rackspace, which has an awesome reputation in the cloud computing world. They are #2 behind amazon. Rosalyn On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote: Hi Kevin, Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/ I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want, development wise. Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30 minutes. Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month. And yet another ...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience. [1] Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience. -- Michael [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # do...@uta.edu # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Reiss Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
I can attest to Slicehost, which Michael suggested. I have used it for several projects. One has java/tomcat intensive applications--Cocoon/Solr/Orbeon. The other is running game servers haha. It'll run Rails as well as anything, although I have not used slicehost for that in particular. I think it's a great service. Both systems I manage are running Ubuntu 8.04. Ethan On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote: Hi Kevin, Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/ I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want, development wise. Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30 minutes. Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month. And yet another ...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience. [1] Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience. -- Michael [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # do...@uta.edu # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Reiss Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
I think one thing to consider between Heroku and something like Slicehost, is what exactly you have the resources/willingness to support. One of the things I've really liked is that to get an app running on Heroku is that I basically just have to worry about my Ruby app, not maintaining a server environment. On the other hand, it's somewhat limiting as to what I can do there, so it's not a solution to every problem. -Ross. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin, I'm going to recommend slicehost also. Again, I haven't used it but I met the (former) owner. He sold the business to rackspace, which has an awesome reputation in the cloud computing world. They are #2 behind amazon. Rosalyn On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote: Hi Kevin, Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/ I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want, development wise. Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials said The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30 minutes. Another said ...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month. And yet another ...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience. [1] Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience. -- Michael [1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # do...@uta.edu # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Reiss Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
FWIW, I was going to mention VPS as an option, but it sounded like *maybe* you'd been working under a managed hosting environment, so Heroku seemed like a natural fit to your question (easy Rails installs with support for a wide variety of libraries/common dependencies), which is why I mentioned at least looking into it. That being said, a VPS like Slicehost would grant you pretty much free range to do whatever you like with the proviso that you'd be managing the whole she-bang and would need to keep your whole LAMP stack updated/patched yourself. As a Ruby newb/fiddler, after looking for a play space to run some of my own Rails projects, I opted for Linode, a somewhat new competitor to Slicehost. But both seem like pretty good options to me. Of course, there are a mind boggling array of other options, including managed VPS's - more restrictive, but there are some that seem more willing to accommodate your needs than others. A good friend uses WiredTree out of Chicago for all of their commercial Drupal sites and love the support they've gotten: http://www.wiredtree.com/. It looks like they do support Rails, but I have no idea how well: http://www.wiredtree.com/managedservers/software.php. Anyway, good luck.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Hi Kevin, Love Heroku (http://heroku.com/), but it does have limitations in the way it works (e.g. Read-only drive space). I've heard good thinks about EngineYard (http://www.engineyard.com) and I've been running several apps through slicehost. If you're feeling brave, you wan use jruby and deploy to Google's app-engine (http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/). HTH, Wayne On 1/14/10 11:15 AM, Kevin Reiss reiss.ke...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:15:38AM -0800, Kevin Reiss wrote: Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss 1000-2000 visits/day should be possible with just about any hosting provider. The flexibility you need will be determined by what you mean by a moderately complicated setup for Rails. If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. If you want a web host, I'd recommend WebFaction. I have a client site with them and have been impressed by the balance of support and flexibility they offer. See the Rails forum (http://forum.webfaction.com/viewforum.php?id=33) for an idea of the way things work there. Gabriel
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. Hey, no fair! :^p
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Gabriel Farrell g...@rc98.net wrote: If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. If it's Plug your favorite VPS provider, I'll put in a shout-out to Rimuhosting. Excellent support, snappy boxes, and good prices. Been using them for three years, both for a pro-bono Rails project and gimlet.us. Cheers, -Nate PS - Lest you giggle at its name (I did), it's ree-moo-hosting ;-)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
Kevin, I host a few rails apps with dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/). I have found them to be really good. Cheers Terence On 15/01/10 3:15 AM, Kevin Reiss reiss.ke...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:33:20PM -0600, Chad Fennell wrote: If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since Slicehost was sold to Rackspace. Hey, no fair! :^p Oops, sorry. Chad has first dibs.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
I have used Sonic.net for the past 10 years because it is run by geeks. Haven't done any Rails on it, but you can build pretty much anything you want on standard tools languages (Perl, PHP, Python, C, Ruby, etc.). For tech support, they have their own newsgroup hierarchy where questions get answered by authoritative sources, like their senior network server admins or the company founder. Also, they recently added two new ways to get their MOTD: twitter and this cracks me up ... gopher ;) Hi, I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in advance. Regards, Kevin Reiss Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org
