[LRUG] Low usage production server options?

Sat Jan 12 22:16:08 PST 2008

Yeah Slice host is one of the best ones

But there are many
the secondary ones to note are Site5, engineyard (quite
costly but very good service), media temple, vpsland

Rails machina seems to be ok
bcos they give you the product with gems in
place
and also they have a very simple method of deployment for which they
have a gem
 it took us about 1 hr to get a test app up and running

Regards
Satish N Kota

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From: chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On
Behalf Of Simon Tokumine
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:42 AM
To: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: Re: [LRUG] Low usage production server options?

Slicehost gets my vote. Excellent uptime and speed so far.

Si

On 1/9/08, Mark Blackman <mark at blackmans.org> wrote:

Exonetric ( www.exonetric.com <http://www.exonetric.com> ) also do FreeBSD
virtual private servers
for 12.50/month.

- Mark

On 9 Jan 2008, at 16:42, Chris Parsons wrote:

> Again for the record, Bytemark do a VM product for as little as £15/ 
> month - you get your own 'virtual dedicated server' so you can play
> around as much as you like with it.
>
> We're running a production website for a client on one of these £15
> VMs and it's handling a surprising amount of load. 
>
> They'll set up linux for you - you'd need to do the RoR specific
> admin.
>
> Chris
>
> On 9 Jan 2008, at 16:26, Daniel Tenner wrote:
>
>> For the record, for £30-40 a month you can already get a dedicated 
>> server (e.g. from ServerBeach). You'll have to do all the admin and
>> setup yourself, but they do provide ways to reinstall the server and
>> reboot it via their panel... So you'll definitely learn how to do it. 
>>
>> For learning how to work with linux, though, nothing beats installing
>> it on a local machine (e.g. an old computer you had stuck in a corner
>> somewhere). Ubuntu is, imho, the friendliest to beginners, and it's a 
>> good introduction to Debian, which is good for actual production
>> servers.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 9 Jan 2008, at 15:29 9 Jan 2008, Andrew Stewart wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> On 9 Jan 2008, at 15:14, Simon Sebright wrote:
>>>> So, can anyone offer and advice on getting my app running
>>>> somewhere, either on a machine of my own or a hosting provider 
>>>> somewhere?  I don't mind installing Linux somewhere, but have
>>>> really no clue how to administer it.  Speed is really not a problem
>>>> - if so many people use the site, it becomes a problem, then I have 
>>>> a good problem!
>>>
>>> If you have a spare Linux box at home, you could get a simple
>>> deployment working fairly easily.  Forget about a web server (e.g.
>>> Apache, Nginx) initially; Mongrel (app server) will be fine on its 
>>> own.  So install Ruby on your Linux box, then Ruby gems, then use
>>> the
>>> gem system to install Mongrel and Rails.
>>>
>>> Alternatively you could use one of the many hosts out there.  They 
>>> cover the spectrum from cheap, mass market (~£3/month) packages to
>>> dedicated VPSs (~£30-40/month) and beyond.
>>>
>>> I strongly recommend avoiding the mass market end.  These hosts 
>>> generally slap "We support Ruby on Rails" on their site because
>>> Rails
>>> is growing in popularity but they don't have any experience with it.
>>> It always goes wrong. 
>>>
>>> As for the rest, the trade-off of price, support and resources is up
>>> to you.  Some are dearer but pretty much do everything for you (e.g.
>>> Rails Machine) while some are cheaper but expect you to do more work 
>>> (e.g. Slicehost).
>>>
>>> One point to bear in mind is that a Rails stack is more akin to a
>>> Java stack, in terms of server resources, than, say, a PHP one.
>>> People coming from PHP are often surprised at Rails's memory 
>>> requirements.
>>>
>>> Personally I use Rails Machine because I'd rather pay somebody to do
>>> what I'm not good at (server administration) and spend my time on 
>>> activities I am good at (e.g. application development).  But it's a
>>> matter of personal preference.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> Andy Stewart 
>>>
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>>>
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