On 04 Dec 2011, at 20:11, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Seems to me you're dealing with a £6 for unlimited space and
unlimited
bandwidth kind of hosting company. Good enough (although I would
even doubt
that) for a personal blog, not fit for anything else, you get what
you pay
for. You can get proper VPS hosting for a lot less than a dedicated
server
will cost you, like Linode. Or you could just make it easy on
yourself and use
Heroku.
I do use heroku (& S3/EC2 & PHP Cloud) but I wanted to put this site
up for
a fixed price with as little fuss as possible. & it is her blog &
she is
dead-set against WordPress, Textpattern, etc.
The main problem with cheap hosting companies is that they use more or
less one-click installers like cpanel or plesk. They generally don't
upgrade all too quickly to newer technologies or versions, both on the
hosting company side as the control panel provider. I'm guessing it's
more of a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" thing than something else.
We've had our fair share of horror experiences in the past, so I
totally get the dilemma you are facing. I do want to add that even
getting a Rails app properly running, even when you're talking about a
2.3 app, will probably yield another round of frustrations. Support
tends to be totally ignorant on Rails apps and you basically get a
copy-paste section of the cpanel manual.
I'm quite sure there are some fixed price hosting companies out there, http://hostingrails.com/sharedhosting
springs to mind, but they are also stuck on 3.0 it seems (byebye
asset pipeline etc).
Out of curiosity, what kind of fuss are you talking about? Ease of
deployment or having to advise someone to switch hosting providers?
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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