From: joviyach <joviyach@...>
Date: 2007-08-02T10:00:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Any experience with Bluehost?

On Jul 31, 11:30 pm, Brett Simmers <bsimm...@cmu.edu> 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)
>
> -Brett

Thanks! I will definitely check that out. I am just getting started
with Ruby, but I am looking for scalability. I have been coding in PHP
for a few years now, and it definitely pays to choose the right
hosting the first time around, I have been burned in the past by not
doing my research on this.