Shared hosting options for small low traffic sites.

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I have a few clients who will need their sites hosted very soon. These are site for local small businesses, and will get little major traffic.

So I need a low cost and easy to deploy to hosting solution. Whats the best bang for the buck for these small sites? Git and capistrano support are absolute must haves here.

Any suggestions?

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Alex Wayne wrote:

I have a few clients who will need their sites hosted very soon. These are site for local small businesses, and will get little major traffic.

So I need a low cost and easy to deploy to hosting solution. Whats the best bang for the buck for these small sites? Git and capistrano support are absolute must haves here.

Any suggestions?

I've some apps on bluehost and they run nicely. DON'T go with servage, it's like a hell, i had to move everything after some days, too slow, too problems. i've also an account on dreamhost, but i've not tried it with rails yet, i've just some php apps, and sometimes they run slow :frowning:

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Xdmx Xdmx wrote:

Alex Wayne wrote:

I have a few clients who will need their sites hosted very soon. These are site for local small businesses, and will get little major traffic.

So I need a low cost and easy to deploy to hosting solution. Whats the best bang for the buck for these small sites? Git and capistrano support are absolute must haves here.

Any suggestions?

I've some apps on bluehost and they run nicely. DON'T go with servage, it's like a hell, i had to move everything after some days, too slow, too problems. i've also an account on dreamhost, but i've not tried it with rails yet, i've just some php apps, and sometimes they run slow :frowning:

Anyone tried BlueBox http://www.blueboxgrid.com/services/shared_hosting ?

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Git.. I don't know of any shared hosting sites that have Git support - meaning you install Git on their system?

Capistrano on the other hand is totally dependent on your local machine and SSH access.

When I go the shared hosting route I go with HostingRails.com. Yup, they give SSH access.

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I was wondering the same thing for my own rails app. I ended up going with OCS http://www.ocssolutions.com/ They've been great, and setup was easy. They have SSH access and will support capistrano. The CEO himself will answer your emails, and they are very good on the communication front. I'm paying the $15 a month shared hosting, but there are even cheaper packages available. I would recommend them.

my site is at http://www.registersmart.org if it helps

good luck

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Ramon Tayag wrote:

Git.. I don't know of any shared hosting sites that have Git support - meaning you install Git on their system?

Capistrano on the other hand is totally dependent on your local machine and SSH access.

When I go the shared hosting route I go with HostingRails.com. Yup, they give SSH access.

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I mean that I host my projects on github, some being able to use capistrano with my github hosted apps seems quite necessary. SO git needs to be installed, just to do code checkouts I guess.