From: andrew mcelroy <sophrinix@...>
Date: 2010-03-05T02:18:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Shared hosting recommendation?

2010/3/4 Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Rafael Vega <email.rafa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> Can anybody recomend a shared hosting provider for Ruby on Rails apps? I'm
>> aware that a shared hosting env will not be good enough for a high traffic,
>> production site but I'm just looking for a small playground.
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> I don't have direct experience but I've heard about Heroku
> (http://heroku.com) a lot around these communities, for Rack based
> applications...
> Maybe in the Rails list they have better answers for this question...
>
Heroku isn't technically shared hosting.
The big thing to keep in mind with Heroku is that it is a read only
file system.
This will have implications on how you design your rails site.
However, you cant beat free (as long as someone else handles the database)

Andrew

> Jesus.
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