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StuntmanMike

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Hi

I am curious if there is a sa based hosting company that offers managed rails hosting?
 
@JasonH

Thank you very much for you reply, do you support deployment via Phusion Passenger. I take it your Gem Support will give me the ability to manage custom gems?
 
martin said:
Had a bad experience with them? Any word of warning would be appreciated as I'll need to look at Rail hosting in the not too distant future.
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No, I've never used them... But they use FastCGI, which has become very old school and dated method of speeding up rails applications. I personally prefer Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails as it is far superior to both FastCGI and Mongrel
 
StuntmanMike said:
No, I've never used them... But they use FastCGI, which has become very old school and dated method of speeding up rails applications. I personally prefer Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails as it is far superior to both FastCGI and Mongrel
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Aren't the 37Signals developers still deploying on Mongrel?

Edit:Yes they are. I don't mean to imply that all RoR developers should follow their approach. Just wondering aloud why they chose that route - a quick readup on Passenger does seem to indicate that it does have a lot of advantages.

Edit 2:Further searching reveals they've moved Ta-Da List onto Passenger so I guess it part of their big picture
 
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Ta-da List has been running on Passenger since last year sometime... 37 Signals actually commissioned the developers of Passenger to make changes to Passanger for them.

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StuntmanMike said:
Ta-da List has been running on Passenger since last year sometime... 37 Signals actually commissioned the developers of Passenger to make changes to Passanger for them.

Edit: what martin said
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Well, as you can tell I'm still pretty new to RoR. Thanks for the thread - I've learnt something useful today. :)
 
Always a pleasure to share what I know...

I guess until a hosting company in SA supports Passenger, I have no choice but to stick with Dreamhost.
 
StuntmanMike said:
Always a pleasure to share what I know...

I guess until a hosting company in SA supports Passenger, I have no choice but to stick with Dreamhost.
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Have you tried asking Hetzner? They seem to be more accommodating than most, perhaps they could set something up for you?
 
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