Ask HN: PHP to RoR, dreamhost to what?

#1

Post by hella » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 3:14 AM UTC

I've been writing PHP and hosting everything on dreamhost for about a year. I just started learning Ruby/Rails today. I'd like to change my host to something that will (1) support both Rails and PHP and (2) scale easily if any of my future projects happen to gain traction.

Which do you recommend? (I've heard both AWS and Heroku mentioned, but have no clue otherwise.)

Re: Ask HN: PHP to RoR, dreamhost to what?

#2

Post by nreece » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 3:18 AM UTC

Slicehost and Linode are both pretty good for scalable VPS hosting.

Re: Ask HN: PHP to RoR, dreamhost to what?

#3

Post by LeBlanc » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 3:32 AM UTC

nreece wrote: post #2

Slicehost and Linode are both pretty good for scalable VPS hosting.

Another recommendation for Linode. I run four apps (two of which were on the front page of HN and saw the subsequent traffic spike) on my 768 linode and have had no problems handling the traffic.

Re: Ask HN: PHP to RoR, dreamhost to what?

#4

Post by Skywing » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 3:46 AM UTC

LeBlanc wrote: post #3

nreece wrote: post #2

Slicehost and Linode are both pretty good for scalable VPS hosting.

Another recommendation for Linode. I run four apps (two of which were on the front page of HN and saw the subsequent traffic spike) on my 768 linode and have had no problems handling the traffic.

I can also vouch for this Linode recommendation.

Re: Ask HN: PHP to RoR, dreamhost to what?

#5

Post by fooandbarify » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 3:52 AM UTC

It's worth noting that you can run Rails on Dreamhost. Don't really remember the details (I'm a Python guy, and it's been a while since I used Dreamhost) but it's probably searchable and if not, I'm sure customer service can help you. Dreamhost may not be the right choice for a heavy-load web application, but it is probably an excellent place to get your feet wet.