[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-10-02 Thread Greg Hauptmann
But you'd still have to find a hosting provider that could handle the hardware for you, power, Internet feeds etc no? On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Tony Primerano wrote: > > You get your own server and set it up yourself.  Some sysadmin skill > are required but they have some good server setup

[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-09-29 Thread Tony Primerano
You get your own server and set it up yourself. Some sysadmin skill are required but they have some good server setup articles. On Sep 27, 2:45 am, Greg Hauptmann wrote: > thanks - does Rackspacecloud have Ruby on Rails support (well like > Dreamhost?), or it a get your own server & do it yours

[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-09-26 Thread Greg Hauptmann
thanks - does Rackspacecloud have Ruby on Rails support (well like Dreamhost?), or it a get your own server & do it yourself? 2009/9/26 Tony Primerano : > > Agreed. Rackspace is great.   Especially when you're 1st building your > application.  I had apache/passenger and mysql running just fine on

[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-09-26 Thread James West
Greg Hauptmann wrote: > any pointers / suggestions re cheapest Rails hosting where they give > you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)??? Can be a shared > platform, however not sure if there is a shared platform type hosting > service where they do give you such access? Having tried a l

[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-09-26 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
My m1.small instance on AWS costs me $75-$80/month. Rackspace does offer smaller configurations than AWS. When you compare similar configurations, e.g., 1.5GB - 2.0GB memory, costs are similar. When I was comparing the two, Rackspace was having a lot of downtime, 3-5/day, and Amazon wasn't, 3-7

[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-09-26 Thread Trausti Thor Johannsson
Dreamhost.com is cheap, but does not allow any httpd changes, but you can do .htaccess files.But slicehost.com is by far the best I have seen. You just get a linux box, and you can then setup the server as you see fit, want to use mongrel, use mongrel, want ngnx or lighttpd instead of apache. Wor

[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-09-25 Thread Tony Primerano
Agreed. Rackspace is great. Especially when you're 1st building your application. I had apache/passenger and mysql running just fine on a 256MB instance. cost? about $11/month. http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/122 There is EC2 on Rails but AWS starts at about $90/month. I'm really hap

[Rails] Re: Cheapest Rails Hosting where they give you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???

2009-09-25 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Greg Hauptmann wrote: > > any pointers / suggestions re cheapest Rails hosting where they give > you full access to Apache (to load modules etc)???  Can be a shared > platform, however not sure if there is a shared platform type hosting > service where they do giv