Re:Ask HN: Hosting a Ruby on Rails app
by jamesbritt on Friday October 29, 2010 @03:17PM
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Find some place that offers Passenger Phusion. Makes hosting a breeze.
Also, if hosting/scaling becomes an issue, you might look at running your app under JRuby and hosting it using a Java app server. There's some overhead in learning about configuration, and such, but it can solve certain problems.
I've been using Railsplayground as a staging server, and while it works OK (though there's near zero load on it) I had stuff break because they decided to upgrade from Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.7. Plus, there's no `screen`, for example, which makes things a little harder than they need be.
Not being root means you have to live with other people's decisions.
Also, if hosting/scaling becomes an issue, you might look at running your app under JRuby and hosting it using a Java app server. There's some overhead in learning about configuration, and such, but it can solve certain problems.
I've been using Railsplayground as a staging server, and while it works OK (though there's near zero load on it) I had stuff break because they decided to upgrade from Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.7. Plus, there's no `screen`, for example, which makes things a little harder than they need be.
Not being root means you have to live with other people's decisions.