Hi John,
Thanks for the informative lecture last night.
I was wondering though what your opinion is on shared hosted servers. For example, I have an account in Lunarpages.com (for $2/month dirt cheap) that allows standard PHP and RoR (err...supposedly), although not as flexible control as say a VPS like Slicehost. I have requested last night from support to switch me over to a RoR capable server, but as you can guess, I am not holding my breath.
I was also poking around Slicehost last night as well and, although it looks promising, it also looks really intimidating at the same time since I have never dipped into setting up so much customization from the get go. For example, even picking a Linux distribution (in the sign up), there were so many options to choose from that I am not sure which one to go for – do you have any suggestions for this?
In your experience, was Slicehost easy to set up and configure a working RoR app?
In my experience, shared hosting tends to be bad, eventually. Two big reasons: The deployment strategy is usual idiosyncratic / custom, and there will be some feature you need, but they're lagging on their Ruby version, or Rails version, or whatever.
If you've never managed a Linux system, I would urge you to start. It's something you need to know. The instructions for Amazon EC2 will probably work almost unchanged for an Ubuntu system created on slicehost, though, inevitably, there could be issues.
What you might want to do is use my screencast and set up on EC2, just to get your feet wet with deploying to Linux. Then try slicehost. Having done it once on EC2, you'll feel more secure with another hosting provider.
Slicehost's wiki is as good or better than its competitors in this area.
Hi John,
Thanks for the informative lecture last night.
I was wondering though what your opinion is on shared hosted servers. For example, I have an account in Lunarpages.com (for $2/month dirt cheap) that allows standard PHP and RoR (err...supposedly), although not as flexible control as say a VPS like Slicehost. I have requested last night from support to switch me over to a RoR capable server, but as you can guess, I am not holding my breath.
I was also poking around Slicehost last night as well and, although it looks promising, it also looks really intimidating at the same time since I have never dipped into setting up so much customization from the get go. For example, even picking a Linux distribution (in the sign up), there were so many options to choose from that I am not sure which one to go for – do you have any suggestions for this?
In your experience, was Slicehost easy to set up and configure a working RoR app?
Thanks again.
-Ben
@Ben Ho
In my experience, shared hosting tends to be bad, eventually. Two big reasons: The deployment strategy is usual idiosyncratic / custom, and there will be some feature you need, but they're lagging on their Ruby version, or Rails version, or whatever.
If you've never managed a Linux system, I would urge you to start. It's something you need to know. The instructions for Amazon EC2 will probably work almost unchanged for an Ubuntu system created on slicehost, though, inevitably, there could be issues.
What you might want to do is use my screencast and set up on EC2, just to get your feet wet with deploying to Linux. Then try slicehost. Having done it once on EC2, you'll feel more secure with another hosting provider.
Slicehost's wiki is as good or better than its competitors in this area.