From: Eric Hodel Date: 2005-03-19T07:29:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Free Rails hosting? --Apple-Mail-19--266233061 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 17 Mar 2005, at 14:05, Lothar Scholz wrote: > Hello Aquila, > > A> I know a lot of free hosters who support PHP etc. but I'd rather > try Rails. > A> Does anyone know of a free hosting who offers Rails? > A> Unfortunately as a student I can't afford paid hosting on eg. > Textdrive... > > Please remember that Rails is from a CPU/Memory cost perspective > more comparable with Java or other application server technologies. 43 Things averages 46661 KB/Rails process (we peak at 200,000 pageviews/day running 40 processes FastCGI across 2 servers). Most of the time load hovers around 0.10 to 0.20 (we have dual 3GHz Xeons with 2GB RAM), but peaks at about 0.50. In an emergency, we can run the entire site off of one box with only 20 FastCGI processes with no performance degradation. I was under the impression that Java takes up a much larger memory footprint, but have never actually used it so I can't say how much memory it takes. I have no idea how much CPU an equivalent Java site would use. Please provide some relevant data about how much memory/CPU a Java site would need to have equivalent performance. People have just managed to fit Rails into 64MB virtual servers. I doubt you could do the same with a Java app. > It absolutely makes no sense for any hoster to offer something like > this. I disagree and feel that this is a statement that carries a great deal of ignorance. I believe people have gotten Rails to fit in a 64MB virtual server with a shoehorn. There's been some discussion of this on the Rails mailing list. It would make perfect sense for a host to offer free 64MB virtual servers because the sandbox is much easier to manage. > It is also difficult to setup because you need a FCGI. I've not found this at all difficult, and judging from the Rails mailing list, many, many people have found it pretty darn simple with only a few well-documented gotchas. This leads me to believe difficult is entirely the wrong word to use. Installing involves about 4 lines added to the httpd.conf and installing 3 packages. FastCGI is common enough that packages (FreeBSD's ports tree, in my case) are very readily available. -- Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E 7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04 --Apple-Mail-19--266233061 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD4DBQFCO1Y5MypVHHlsnwQRAnF9AJ9hcmHjzo9YL8vp6WQKyvxhZ6D4EgCXSvgm UFXkwY8nv9Xsvg00ce7k8g== =t67T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-19--266233061--