Really good service, only reason you might want to consider somewhere closer to home is the ping times are ~130ms which for a UK-only website is a bit high. Theres a german host that does VPS's for £20 more per year who's ping times are down in the 70ms region.
If you end up with your own VPS from anywhere, the articles from slicehost are _very_ useful to newcomer and old hands alike.. its very quick to just run through and install the whole ruby/gem/etc stack so you can then install camping/merb/etc in there and get up and running.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Alistair Holt <alistairh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Heh yea I'm just checking them out this second.. looks really nice :D > 2008/7/17 <ca...@caius.name>:
>> Might not be your cup of tea, but I host at http://slicehost.com/ on a >> 512 slice.
>> C
>> On 7/17/08, Alistair Holt <alistairh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Anyone know where I could host a little Merb, Camping etc app? >> > Cheers
Thanks for the info Caius, that's great.
Who are the German VPS host btw? silverrack.com (US based) seem to be
another similarly priced VPS host to Slicehost.
I'd definitely be a newbie to setting up a VPS but I think I could probably
handle it after reading a few tutorials.
Nice review for SilverRack:
"I've been with Stevenson Software VPS hosting for about 3 months now,
hosting my Rails app - mygardenplans.com. So far I've had no problems at
all. Dave is great to work with - he even setup my Centos 4 Rails Stack for
me, configured Apache, and sent me a sample capistrono deploy.rb"
> Really good service, only reason you might want to consider somewhere
> closer to home is the ping times are ~130ms which for a UK-only
> website is a bit high. Theres a german host that does VPS's for £20
> more per year who's ping times are down in the 70ms region.
> If you end up with your own VPS from anywhere, the articles from
> slicehost are _very_ useful to newcomer and old hands alike.. its very
> quick to just run through and install the whole ruby/gem/etc stack so
> you can then install camping/merb/etc in there and get up and running.
Now that mod_rails has rack support, is shared hosting an option for merb/camping? There are a couple of UK based companies now offering shared hosting with mod_rails which is a lot cheaper than a VPS, e.g. 1st easy, media72. Just a thought...
Really good service, only reason you might want to consider somewhere closer to home is the ping times are ~130ms which for a UK-only website is a bit high. Theres a german host that does VPS's for £20 more per year who's ping times are down in the 70ms region.
Yea there are a few UK companies offering mod_rails setups now. I looked at
1st easy (got a trial account) and media72 but eventually decided to go
with ocssolutions.com shared hosting. At the time (last week) they told me
"We are not currently using [mod_rails]. We have plans to, but currently
Mongrel is working very well, and mod_rails simply isn't a mature enough
product to use in production at this point."... but looking their site now..
it seems mod_rails has magically appeared heh.
Hosting has been pretty good so far.
Surely it's only a matter of time before we can have shared hosting for
merb/camping too!
> I second that on the latency.
> Now that mod_rails has rack support, is shared hosting an option for
> merb/camping? There are a couple of UK based companies now offering shared
> hosting with mod_rails which is a lot cheaper than a VPS, e.g. 1st
> easy, media72. Just a thought...
> Really good service, only reason you might want to consider somewhere
> closer to home is the ping times are ~130ms which for a UK-only
> website is a bit high. Theres a german host that does VPS's for £20
> more per year who's ping times are down in the 70ms region.
