Are there other viable/hands-off/scalable rails app hosting solutions you'd recommend?
What I love about heroku : super easy to deploy and maintain.
What I don't love about heroku : poor support, uptime and performance
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#3I don't use services like Heroku (expect for my hubot instance) but I have researched a couple and I have found dotcloud to be very good. They support a large amount of different services, and they have open sourced a lot of their stack
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#4Not really hands-off, but for an open-source alternative, rubber is interesting. If nothing else, but for the ideas on how to automate a scalable rails app on ec2.
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#5EngineYard, DotCloud, AppFog. But I'd be surprised if you find better support and uptime. Hard to say about performance.
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#6You might try https://www.engineyard.com/ instead. You might also want to look at Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk.
Your "not loves" don't ring true for me though- perhaps you'd like to elaborate there?
I've been running production apps on Heroku for more than 2 years now, and there has only been one occasion where their uptime impacted the apps' availability. Even during Hurricane Sandy, my apps were up 24/7, so it's hard to understand your comment.
Yes, they do have non-critical issues at times (their API goes through brief, but not infrequent periods of instability)... but this only impacts your ability to deploy/manage an app, not the app's actual uptime.
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#7Engine Yard: Slightly more low level than Heroku, good support, uptime, and performance.
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#8We are using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Java and quite satisfied for the ease of use, and they also support Ruby now:
http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
The best thing about AWS Elastic Beanstalk is you can still login into the machine in case you need to troubleshoot for some low level stuffs.
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Just checked them out correct me if I'm wrong but they seem more like an alternative to rackspace or EC2. They provide a VM while heroku provides the full preconfigured application and deployment stack.
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#10OpenShift from Red Hat is often cited as a competitive offering in Heroku vs X reviews. When I first checked it out they hadn't yet come out of beta.
Uses git just like Heroku. Has a similar "dyno" concept but calls them gears. Has a free developer version.
Don't know about support today, but the people I talked to from the team were incredibly helpful.