From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-08-01T13:56:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Any experience with Bluehost?

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:30:43PM +0900, Brett Simmers wrote:
> joviyach wrote:
> >I am looking for hosting for RoR, but I'd also like to be able to do
> >some PHP with MySQL on the same account as well. I have been looking
> >at Bluehost. Does anyone have anything comments good or bad about
> >them?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jim
> >  
> I had Bluehost for a while and they aren't great for Rails sites.  They 
> were fine for my low traffic personal site, but I was also in charge of 
> a fairly high-traffic Rails site that didn't do so well.  There would be 
> random fcgi failures, and their CPU time limits are pretty restrictive.  
> We switched the site to Mongrel on hostingrails.com and it's been much 
> better.  I don't think there's anything Bluehost had that hostingrails 
> doesn't, and hostingrails also has subversion support.  Hostingrails is 
> a little more expensive but I think it's worth it for serious Rails 
> development.  (Yes, it has PHP and MySQL, too)

Hmm -- hostingrails.com looks pretty good.  I'm going to have to check it
out in a bit more depth.

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