I was able to get Apache + Passenger + Rails running on Slicehost over the course of a couple hours at Startup Weekend. It took a bit of hassling and digging around Google to figure out how to fix a few errors I was running into.
Regardless of which host you go with, I recommend taking a look at the articles section on Slicehost (http://articles.slicehost.com/sitemap) as they have excellent guides to walk through configuring your server and popular web frameworks like Rails, Django, etc. These helped get me through the Passenger installation along with a bit of help from Rob. Cal On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Robert Eickmann <[email protected]>wrote: > > My problems were mostly with the default Ubuntu install. Ruby and > Passanger just don't seem to get along at all with Ubuntu. > > The other problem that I had was with a java app, and well the less > said about running java the on a religiously 'free' system the better. > > Anyway it was more of a learning curve thing than anything else, the > summary of it is spelled out as "Don't necessarily expect a popular > linux system to support a popular web frame work". > > -Rob > > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Nikhilesh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I had no Linux experience and got myself a Linode slice last month. > > Was forced to, actually, because my shared host complained about high > > CPU usage and shut down my site. > > > > The Linode IRC was very helpful. > > > > I also wrote a Getting Started guide on the Linode wiki to help people > > who were moving from shared hosts and don't know much about Linux > > (except maybe ls -l) > > http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_started is about setting > > up Apache, MySQL, PHP and APC caching. > > > > Rob, what config changes would you suggest to the default Ubuntu > > install that they offer? > > > > Nick Jasuja > > --- > > www.diffen.com > > Diffen. Discern. Decide. > > > > On Mar 12, 3:11 pm, "mike begley" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Awesome. I just signed up with linode.com and created a slice. > >> > >> Now to figure out how to install apache/mysql/php on here. I've been > using BSD pretty much exclusively for the last...good god...quarter century. > Linux is still kinda weird to me. Everything is hidden in bizarre places. > >> > >> Joy. > >> > >> -mike > >> > >> > Blue Box Group - blueboxgrp.com The specialize in rails, but > >> > they do other hosting as well. They also sponsored Startup Weekend. > >> > >> > Linnode - fairly cheap, rock solid and reliable. (Though > >> > their stock Ubuntu image leaves a bit to be desired.) > >> > > Anyone have recommedations for web hosting or slice hosting? I'm > >> > > looking at slicehost.com. They seem pretty well regarded. Anyone > >> > > have others that they recommend? > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
