Rails Hosting

[StuntmanMike]

Hi

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

 

[martin]

Google is your friend: http://www.rubyonrailshosting.co.za/

 

[JasonH]

Hello,

We offer rails hosting, drop me an email sales [at] elitehost.co.za or check my sig out.

 

[StuntmanMike]

@martin

I should've been more specific... Anyone but ispinabox

 

[StuntmanMike]

@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]

@martin

I should've been more specific... Anyone but ispinabox

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.

 

[StuntmanMike]

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.

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

 

[martin]

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

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

 

[StuntmanMike]

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

 

[martin]

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

Well, as you can tell I'm still pretty new to RoR. Thanks for the thread - I've learnt something useful today.

 

[StuntmanMike]

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.

 

[martin]

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.

Have you tried asking Hetzner? They seem to be more accommodating than most, perhaps they could set something up for you?

 

[StuntmanMike]

I found this on their website
http://supportcentre.hetzner.co.za/index.php/Glossary_of_terms/PQR/Ruby_on_Rails

It's my guess that I will need to take TruServ Hosting and manage the server myself... and tbh, I'm not in the mood for doing that again.