Nayeem, I'm sorry you've not found a VPS provider that can help you in your learning curve. I've been amazed how helpful BlueBoxGroup - http://www.blueboxgrp.com/ has been for me! Even though I have only one VPS with 1 meg RAM these people treat me as though we're partners. They answer my questions on the phone or email IMMEDIATELY and lend a depth to their answers that has has made me lose my fear of deployment. On this one VPS I've got three Rails applications and three static sites. David
On Jun 22, 5:27 pm, Developer In London <ebilliona...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/22 Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> > > > > > Developer In London wrote: > > > I use Mosso instead of slicehost. With a bit of sysadmin skills you > > > should > > > be able to get your rails app up and running very quickly. > > > Good to know. Mosso looks interesting, but I've never tried it. FWIW, > > I love Slicehost; never used Rimuhosting. > > I was also with slicehost. I had both slicehost and mosso at the same time > and the servers run on the same datacentre with same subnets and even same > default names. I cant speak for the whole Mosso company but from my > experience they are EXACTLY same as slicehost. Most likely they inherited > slicehost's infrastructure when they bought them. > > > > > [...] > > > They own slicehost so you dont get anything > > > different, just a slightly cheaper price. > > > Not quite true. Certainly Mosso and Slicehost are now both owned by > > Rackspace, but my understanding is that Mosso is cloud-based whereas > > Slicehost is a VPS service. Quite different. > > I saw both of them to be Xen virtual servers. Mosso has a different product > 'Cloud Sites' which runs from full cloud. Yes they are different, but you > cant compare an apple with a banana. Mosso's Virtual servers have zero > difference with slicehost. > > > > > > I am yet to find any hosting > > > company that provides a good reliable support, so you can forget support > > > on > > > whoever you go with. Reality is you are on your own and have the forums > > > to > > > help you. > > > Again, no. I have used Rackspace on (non-Rails) projects for clients > > and been *extremely* impressed by their level of support -- quick, > > comprehensive and capable. Slicehost had a reputation for great support > > even before Rackspace bought them, so while I've never had to deal with > > their support staff, I would expect their support to be excellent as > > well. > > Again, yes. I have used rackspace myself, their 'fanatical support' is only > covered if you sign up for the managed service. But then you cant get it on > VPS, you have to get a full dedicated server, and then yes they will set > things up for you if needed. From the mosso version of support, you get as > much help as they can provide through chat or phone, but they will not login > to your server to investigate anything. Neither will slicehost. I speak all > of this from my own personal experience. Their knowledge of SysAdmin is > somewhat limited, I spent hours chatting to them on the phone or chat to > troubleshoot a problem only in the end they would give up and leave it to me > to sort it out on my own. This has happened on numerous occassions. So I am > sorry I DO NOT BELIEVE there is good support from ANY hosting company for > VPS. I can do better support then them myself being a programmer. > > > > > You're not really on your own with support if you have a good host -- > > they won't do everything for you, but they can be very helpful. > > Slicehost/Rackspace is definitely a good host. > > You ARE on your own if they cannot solve your problems by asking you to try > a few standard things they have. If a problem is critical and they cant > solve it they will leave you in blue water. I had to spend days learning > about sysadmin to get myself upto speed to sort out my issues. > Only way you can get around this is if you get a fully managed dedicated > server from rackspace with fanatical support, but usually they start from > around 50 times the price of a VPS. > > As a host all of rackspace, slicehost and mosso are good. But as I mentioned > I dont see the point in spending $20/month for a 256mb slice with 100gb > bandwidth when most people would only use a few gigs of bandwidth. With > mosso's same exact package running from the same exact location same spec > would come to around $14 or less. My maths arent that rusty yet to work out > whats the better deal here. ;-) I moved my server to mosso instead of > upgrading on slicehost. > > Hope this helps. > > Nayeem --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
