Hi Kevin,
Although I can't recommend any hosting based on personal experience, a while back I had bookmarked a recommended (by another code4libber) hosting site: Slicehost at http://www.slicehost.com/
I think they pretty much get out of the way and let you do what you want, development wise. Regarding Rails in particular, one of their testimonials said "The only thing I can say is Wow! ... Rails up and running in 30 minutes." Another said "...I’m a Rails developer and a Linux enthusiast who can’t believe he found a Gentoo VPS with 256MB RAM for $20/month." And yet another "...I’m a freelance Rails developer, and my experience on an Ubuntu VPS has been fantastic compared to my previous shared hosting experience." [1]
Again, this is *not* a recommendation from personal experience.
-- Michael
[1] http://www.slicehost.com/why-slicehost/testimonials
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Reiss
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:16 AM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting
>
> Hi,
>
> I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've
> had a good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with
> bluehost but my experience has not been good. You need to work through
> a lot of hoops just to get a moderately complicated rails application
> properly. The applications we are looking at deploying would be
> moderately active, 1,000 -2000 visits a day. Thanks for any comments in
> advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Reiss
>
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 14 2010 - 11:42:12 EST