RoR hosting help?

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Hi,

I am looking for suggestions for hosting for a site we're developing in RoR (working with developer):

The site allows photographers to upload galleries, so we want to make sure we have proper memory and bandwidth. Traffic will be pretty light at first (visitors can search through these galleries). We're pretty convinced we need dedicated/VPS as opposed to shared hosting.

Important criteria are:

1) backups 2) bandwidth 3) RAM 4) Located in US 5) easy to change/scale as we grow (like add more RAM, etc)

We are working with a web dev so we also need it to be easy for him to deploy the code on the server.

We've been looking at:

http://webbynode.com/

Anyone familiar with these guys? Other recs?

Thanks - I appreciate the help!

-Mike

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Nope.

I'd suggest adding slicehost.com to that list. I've got three slices with them for various projects. Good stuff.

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I use both Heroku and Rackspace with my hosting. I’ve heard great things about Slicehost and Linode as well.

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Steve Klabnik wrote:

I use both Heroku and Rackspace with my hosting. I've heard great things about Slicehost and Linode as well.

Slicehost is excellent. So is Heroku.

Best,

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Hi,

I would use Heroku and store the images on Amazon S3.

Jarin Udom Founder, Robot Mode LLC @jarinudom

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Mike,

I run marketing for www.engineyard.com -- which has a rails hosting offering that provides deployment and management, back-ended by Amazon Web Services.

-> Backups are automated for you via snapshots of Amazon EBS volumes -> bandwidth is charged on a sliding scale starting at $0.17 per GB transfer (http://www.engineyard.com/products/cloud/pricing1) -> RAM - starts at $.11 per hour for a 1.7GB small instance (with 1vCPU) -> Located in Virginia -> You can add RAM by upgrading instance sizes or adding more instances -- the first takes two button pushes, the second takes 1. You can play with our pricing estimator to get more idea [http:// www.engineyard.com/products/cloud/pricing/price-estimator].

There's a whole bunch of other features like automated database replicas, automated security patching, application cloning etc. as you grow. And when you get serious, you can add support offerings which give you 24x7 coverage.

They'd probably want to use S3 for storing the photos.

Let me know at mmullany [ at ] engineyard.com if you'd like more detail.

-- michael

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I am in India,we don't use credit cards or pay pal, this has made it very difficult to find a ROR hosting wich gives one full 24 hr support. Any one knows a hosting that handles Indian payments?

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Karthikeyan wrote:

I am in India,we don't use credit cards or pay pal, this has made it very difficult to find a ROR hosting wich gives one full 24 hr support. Any one knows a hosting that handles Indian payments?

I know PayPal doesn't deal with India...but can't you use credit cards?

Best,

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Check for a hosting site that accepts mobile payments through Boku or Paymo. If you have a cell phone, the charges are added to the text rates and you just make payments normally through your cell phone provider.

Sincerely,

Joel Dezenzio Website Bio: http://jdezenzio.com/ Rails Production Sites: http://ncaastatpages.com

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+1 vote for Heroku and Slicehost. I’ve used both and love both. However, I use Slicehost for non-rails apps, and Heroku for my rails apps.

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Jason Soo wrote:

+1 vote for Heroku and Slicehost. I've used both and love both. However, I use Slicehost for non-rails apps, and Heroku for my rails apps.

Right. I use Slicehost for the Rails apps I've written that need things Heroku can't provide.

--- Jason Soo "I'm going to live forever or die trying."

Best,