I recommend http://www.slicehost.com/ I was blown away by the simplicity and power of their service. All the benefits of your own box with far less hassle and only $20pm starting fee. Loads of really good documentation on getting a production RoR environment up and running too. They're probably the best bet for bootstrapers and students.
What webhost do you use for your startup?
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Re: What webhost do you use for your startup?
#12we use joyent.com - at least we try to... The portfolio is impressive, and we mainly chose them because they offer horizontally scalable rails solutions, something that many providers are still missing.
We requested the new server 2 weeks before. Still no server...
Do you know of alternatives we might be looking for?
Re: What webhost do you use for your startup?
#13I'd recommend Railsmachine. I wrote a post about it here: http://blog.wakoopa.com/archives/how-we-got-hosted-the-rails-way
Re: What webhost do you use for your startup?
#14I'd definitely recommend http://rimuhosting.com
I know of at least 1 YComb startup that has used it in the past - and we're using it now. I've personally been hosting with them for 2 or 3 years now and it's hands down the best virtual hosting I've used (compared with 4 others I've tried).
Other friends are using Amazon EC2+S3 for scaling needs (on the fly load-balancing). Haven't used it myself, but I only hear great things.
Re: What webhost do you use for your startup?
#15I'd definitely recommend http://rimuhosting.com I know of at least 1 YComb startup that has used it in the past - and we're using it now. I've personally been hosting with them for 2 or 3 years now and it's hands down the best virtual hosting I've used (compared with 4 others I've tried). Other friends are using Amazon EC2+S3 for scaling needs (on the fly load-balancing). Haven't used it myself, but I only hear great…
I'd second that vote for Rimu. I used them when I started Furl and I continue to use them for my new projects. They are truly fantastic when it comes to support.
Re: What webhost do you use for your startup?
#16I recommend http://www.slicehost.com/ I was blown away by the simplicity and power of their service. All the benefits of your own box with far less hassle and only $20pm starting fee. Loads of really good documentation on getting a production RoR environment up and running too. They're probably the best bet for bootstrapers and students.
We use slicehost too for our web app. Even if most of their customers appear to use RoR, we didn't have any issue in setting up Apache and MySql and getting our Java/Tomcat/Struts/Hibernate web application up & running even on a VPS with 256MB of Ram.
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#17For simplicity and affordability, you can't go wrong with GoDaddy.
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#18I like Linode: http://www.linode.com
They may be a little more expensive than other VPS hosts, but they make up for it with awesome, rapid service turnaround. I've been using them for three years, and I don't think I'd switch to anything except maybe EC2.
Re: What webhost do you use for your startup?
#19I recommend http://www.slicehost.com/ I was blown away by the simplicity and power of their service. All the benefits of your own box with far less hassle and only $20pm starting fee. Loads of really good documentation on getting a production RoR environment up and running too. They're probably the best bet for bootstrapers and students.
We use slicehost too for our web app. Even if most of their customers appear to use RoR, we didn't have any issue in setting up Apache and MySql and getting our Java/Tomcat/Struts/Hibernate web application up & running even on a VPS with 256MB of Ram.
Checked out the rest and Slicehost seems to appeal to me the most. I love their pricing plan! very simple and straight forward. Though how do they compare to RailsMachine etc. in terms of scaling Rails apps?
Re: What webhost do you use for your startup?
#20we use joyent.com - at least we try to... The portfolio is impressive, and we mainly chose them because they offer horizontally scalable rails solutions, something that many providers are still missing. We requested the new server 2 weeks before. Still no server... Do you know of alternatives we might be looking for?
Well, it turned out their mails got caught in the spam filter and we managed to overlook them :-( What a shame...