From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" Date: 2010-03-05T02:32:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Shared hosting recommendation? On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:18 PM, andrew mcelroy wrote: > 2010/3/4 Jesús Gabriel y Galán : >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Rafael Vega 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) As I said, I don't have experience with them, it's just that I hear it a lot, specially in the Sinatra list, etc. Jesus.