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.
Topfunky has an awesome screencast (peepcode) showing you how to setup a Rails stack with Capistrano deployment features on an Ubuntu server from an OS X development environment, using the deprec gem. And it’s free. I’m a big fan of the Peepcode screencasts, just a great idea. I look forward to them each month.
Peepcode – Rails stack on Ubuntu using deprec
You might also want to check out Craig Ambrose’s article on using deprec w/ a Slicehost VPS. I haven’t played with deprec much but plan to soon.
A great looking tool for performance monitoring, the Mysql Query Analyzer plugin can help you find bottlenecks. Very handy for troubleshooting DB performance on your Slice.
script/plugin install http://svn.nfectio.us/plugins/query_analyzer
Want Ruby on Rails goodness for your Slice in less than 5 minutes? Checkout the 5-minute Rails Install on our Wiki. Enjoy!
Our favorite framework turns 3.
So for my (delayed) celebration of Rails turning two years old, I salute all early adopters who dared stick their neck out and be the subject of ridicule from their suspicious peers.
Let’s share a brief moment of guilty pleasure for proving them wrong, then move on to the longer lasting pleasure of simply sticking to it for our own sake.
This blog started as a Wordpress install. Between us, we have a few other blogs, most Typo and a few others (Textpattern, Blogger). Wordpress seemed like a good choice and it’s always fun to try new software. I set it up, sent out the passwords and identified a few things I liked: fonts, posting UI, comment management and anti-spam techniques. But I missed Typo. Within 24 hours, I couldn’t take it anymore, wiped the install and switched.
There’s nothing wrong with Wordpress, it just wasn’t for me. It felt busy. I think it’s a great piece of software for people who quickly want to setup a blog and never look under the hood. But that’s not us.
The lack of development on the Typo front turned me off for a while, but the team has rebounded nicely with a superb 4.0 release and great install package. Much easier from the initial 2.x version I installed and highly recommended. Mongrel support built in!