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In this report on Rails hosting, I provide some sweet affiliate links and rake in the cash!!Anonymous - February 21, 2010 20:21
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This post read a bit too much like a keywords play, I've tweaked it slightly ;-)PeterCooper - February 21, 2010 21:12
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Thanks Peter, I never know were to put the link. The way you changed it is much better.
Anonymous, only some of the links have an affiliate link and I have a disclosure at the bottom. I don't expect to retire anytime soon from these links, but I don't see a problem with including my referral either. :) The main aim of the report is to provide people with a useful pointer.AntonioCangiano - February 21, 2010 21:19
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Since there are no comments available in the original article, I will ask here: to what extent has the author used the services listed to make the claims of service, reliability, and performance mentioned in the article? What kinds of projects and how long was each project run on each respective host? There are 9 hosts listed, each with a positive recommendation. Seriously? You've never had any problems or any gotchas with any of these hosts?
Show me some real data. Otherwise, as the first commenter implied, it looks a lot like link bait.Harry - February 21, 2010 22:20
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Harry, thank you for politely expressing your concerns. The article is already very long as is, without the need for narrating specific experiences. It is mostly meant to be a pointer towards some trusted companies, for those who don't have much clue about Rails hosting. I have had direct or indirect experience with all of them. In particular, I had direct experience with Slicehost, Rightscale, Mor.ph and EngineYard. Linode was suggested by Peter (well, and countless others). My experiences with Brightbox, HostingGator, HostingRails and Heroku are indirect (friends, colleagues, clients). All very positive though. None of the hosting companies above is perfect of course, but they are services that can be confidently recommended to newcomers.AntonioCangiano - February 21, 2010 23:12
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I think it's a little disingenuous to recommend companies to newcomers without listing their strengths and weaknesses so newcomers can evaluate their options. Otherwise, your recommendation is not much better than search results.
If I use Solr for my search engine, for example, will it be supported? What if I use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL, or Tokyo Tyrant? What is their infrastructure like? What kind of machines will I be hosted on? 1GB of RAM on a commodity machine virtualized with Xen performs a whole lot slower than 1GB on a machine optimized for virtualization with an OS to match.
What kind of fiber? What kind of backbone? Can I install my own gems if they're not vendored? Can I install anything non-standard? How long does it take to get service support issues resolved? Do the rock stars associated with a company actually work on the hosting or are they mostly concerned with other projects?
There's so so so much more to hosting than just saying you support (or even focus on) Rails. Without this information, I think newcomers might as well flip a coin.Harry - February 22, 2010 15:59
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I did not see Blue Box Group on the list and I've had excellent experiences dealing with them. Support is timely competent and effective. Those guys know their stuff and no, they're not paying me to post this.nfstern - February 24, 2010 17:06
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If this list reflects what hosting providers you've used or heard from using Rails since 2004, I find it odd that you didn't even Rails Machine (disclaimer, of which I am an employee). If anything, we'd fall somewhere in the 'Managed VPS' category. Have you not used our hosting services, not heard of us, or something else?technicalpickles - February 24, 2010 20:36
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