[LRUG] Rails in the wonderful, wonderful Cloud

[toby privett]

I've used both Railsmachine and Slicehost for client projects. The former
offer a nifty deployment gem, but extra ram etc gets very pricey.
Slicehost have been great. You have to spend a little time setting up the
box but the guides they have are comprehensive and I've not had any trouble.
One plus is the ease of cloning your slice through the control panel. While
it's not a managed service, I do get the idea they're "on top of it". They
DOS issues a while ago. Other than, it's been a smooth ride. And the price
is right.


Hello, a quick question on this sunny autumnal morning. A client of ours is
>>> looking to move their Rails app into the cloud both for future scalability
>>> and redundancy reasons (the recent 20 minute outage due to their current
>>> host's network issues being the proximate cause).
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend, or recommend avoiding, any virtualised platforms?
>>> I'm aware of Engine Yard and Heroku (both of which are EC2 based I believe),
>>> and it seems Rackspace has a product now too. We've used Joyent in the past
>>> but found their customer service pretty woeful. The client's budget is
>>> £250/US$400 per month; a managed solution would be preferable if budget
>>> allows.
>>>
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