Victor Stan wrote: > "With Heroku there's no git pull -- just push the code and it does > everything else. " > > The problem for me is that it wasn't that simple, the app didn't work.
Yes, Heroku has certain limitations. But they don't apply to most apps. > While in an environment like shared hosting (if were comparing low > price things, Heroku has a small free option as well) More than small. Heroku's free dev hosting makes it excellent for projects in their early stages. Try doing that on Site5 or Slicehost. > I have control > over the database, I don't get how heroku's databases work... Standard PostgreSQL. No different from any other PostgreSQL installation. What's not to get? > I'll > assume that through ActiveRecord it doesn't matter. But whatever, if > you want to see what's in the database, Site5 gives you PhpMyAdmin, That's a disadvantage -- PhpMyAdmin is apparently a known security hole. > I > don't know how you check what's in the database on Heroku. Then you didn't read their comprehensive documentation on this very subject. > > "Site5 is shared hosting, not a VPS, right? If so, then the two > aren't > really comparable -- and Rails generally really wants a VPS. " > > Well the question we are supposed to be answering here is what is > "easy" rails hosting, not VPS vs shared. That's a whole other chapter. > Site5 is shared, its easy. Its setup for you out of the box. That's > all. And judging from the number of problems from Site5 users I've seen on this list, I doubt that it's easy. Rails is not generally easy on shared hosts. > > - V Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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-t...@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.
