From: Daniel Cremer <daniel@...>
Date: 2004-08-30T20:33:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Web Hosts

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:17, T. Onoma wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2004 02:37 am, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, T. Onoma wrote:
> > > Please recommend Ruby-supporting web hosts. I am currently looking at the
> > > following providers in this order of preference:
> >
> > You might also want to check out some of the folks who do User Mode Linux
> > hosting.  Basically, you get root access to your own virtual linux system
> > and can install just about anything you want.
> 
> How funny! I took you suggestion and did a google search. Guess what showed 
> up? Jim Weirich’s blog, http://onestepback.org. Ha! Turns out he has a entry 
> on the subject of UMLx, b/c his blog's on one.
> 
> All well and good, except when I went to the site I got a "connection refused 
> error" :(  Is that indicative of the current stability of UMLx ?  Or, Jim, is 
> your blog down for other reasons?

In terms of UML,
(Motivated by no personnel gain) I can strongly recommend:
http://www.linode.com
I've had one up for 164 days without any problems (despite me). I would
say they are pretty stable. The problems you may experience are if
someone else is thrashing the hard-drive and you need quick data  access
to the drive too. However this isn't different than for shared hosting
and I've never had problems with it.
It is a blast be able to try different linux distros with just a few
clicks.

	-Daniel