I'm looking for a rails host and the two that seem to be the most
popular are textdrive and dreamhost.
Popular, as in their servers are highly loaded?
Is tehre a better host that I have missed?
Dreamhost is awesome! I've had them for about six months. Never had a
problem...even when they were having outages. I highly suggest them.
They are all up to date with ruby and rails. Also have some cool gems
installed.
If you want to sign up....just travel over to
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?203990 and then you can enter the code
RUBYGROUP to get the $50 dollar activation fee waived. After that the
package I have is only $10 bucks a month. I can add as many domains as
I like and you get more space than you should ever need.
Matt Polito wrote:
Dreamhost is awesome! I've had them for about six months. Never had a
problem...even when they were having outages. I highly suggest them.
They are all up to date with ruby and rails. Also have some cool gems
installed.If you want to sign up....just travel over to
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?203990 and then you can enter the code
RUBYGROUP to get the $50 dollar activation fee waived. After that the
package I have is only $10 bucks a month. I can add as many domains as
I like and you get more space than you should ever need.>
I have no real experience of dreamhost, but I grabbed an account anyway
using one of the $97 discount codes - means I paid about £12 (yep,
sterling) for 1 years hosting and domain name(1 year in advance is the
best deal - no set up fee).
Installed ruby/gems locally (no real need, but hey why not, with 200GB
of disk 
), no issues so far, pretty fast on the ping even considering
I'm in the UK.
Check out http://retailmenot.com for discount codes (I believe I used
ABW97).
railsplayground.com I _can_ vouch for (13 months), great service.
If you're trying to just help the guy out, then please give him a full
referral code like this one: MAX97
--Jeremy
