Slicehost

Peepcast mastermind and Rails podcaster Topfunky has posted a guide on popular Rails hosting options.

If you are a full-time Rails developer, I think you owe it to yourself to learn how to operate a server. Spending $20/month on your own education will be worthwhile and will help you make mistakes on your own before making them on a paying client project. Slicehost would be a great environment for that kind of self-education.

Slicehoster’s are all over the comments!

Evan:

“A single Rails app or blog” is hardly the limit if you know what you’re doing. I had a Rimuhosting VPS for a while, but Slicehost is much faster.

Ryan:

I’ve found Slicehost to be great. You can ‘reset’ your slice reloading the OS from scratch so you can practice setting up stuff (and then learn to automate it). It has it’s own ajaxy console thing incase you lock yourself out (no need to contact support and wait for them to fix your firewall problems).

Lindsay:

I’ve recently signed up for a Slicehost 256MB plan for all my personal stuff, and so far it’s been great. I’m yet too see how it goes under heavy load though.

Don’t worry about the load Lindsay, it’ll be fine :) We had a couple of diggs this week that ran perfectly.

Keep it up everyone, we really appreciate the endorsements.