Is there a website and/or individual suggestions for a good RoR web hosting service.
Ralph
Heroku is good for starting out but EngineYard is probably the preferred for large scale applications.
Dieter Lunn http://ubiety.ca
Hi
Some options
Heroku Rackspace Linode EC2 Amazon
Martin
Linode no good, their guides will guide you to wrong deployment. You'll lose a LOT of time chasing your tail and banging your head against the wall with deployments that just don't work.
Their support staff are very polite, but the bottom line is their Rails deployment guides DO NOT work and they cannot help you get a workable deployment.
I've had a very different experience with Linode. I had no Linux experience and was able to get a box set up running Rails in not too long using their guides. Sure, it wasn't as fast as using Heroku but I enjoy having total control over the environment.
Bobby
Linode no good, their guides will guide you to wrong deployment. You'll lose a LOT of time chasing your tail and banging your head against the wall with deployments that just don't work.
Linode were fine for me but then I didn't read any of their deployment guides. On a more managed front, I've had good experiences with blue box and railshoster.de
Fred
If you know Git already then definitely give a try for Heroku. Go on with this: Ruby on Rails Tutorial | Learn Enough to Be Dangerous it teaches you how to start with Heroku and Git.
If not and are a beginner then: http://www.railshosting.org/
I started here, their support is excellent: http://www.hostingrails.org/ and it's free for a year, enough time to get involved.
good luck gezope