Hosting for Rails

As I wrote in a previous post, I've been using TextDrive as my host. I got it over a year ago and back then Rails hosts were hard to come by (wow, that makes me sound so old).

It was a bit of a struggle setting up my site (it felt a bit hack-ish actually). But it's been happily running for over a year.

But now that I'm thinking of making a new site, I've looked around for a better host. After looking at some reviews, I chose to go with DreamHost. It's pretty insane how much they provide as far as space, bandwidth, and other features. And it's pretty cheap too just $8 a month with no setup fees if you use the promo code FMP50 (Discliamer: I get a commision if you use that code, but it's really a great deal).

Any time a host gives so many features, you have to be weary because you'll be sharing the server with tons of other users with the same restrictions. So DreamHost seems really good as a server to host your beta apps. They let you host unlimited number of domains. So anytime you got an idea, you can just code it up and throw it on the server to see if it's a hit. And then if you need more resources, you can always move to another host.

So far I've been with them for two days, so I can't speak too much regarding the reliability and such. But so far I have no complaints. Transferring my code to the server has been a little bumpy, but that's to be expected. The support is responsive, so they're always there to help too.

Once I got my app up and running I'll write a more in-depth review. But so far, for the services they provide, DreamHost seems to be a great value.