Ok, so I’d love to get a slicehost account, and set all my rails stuff
up there. However, the sad (and annoying) reality is that you can’t
get slices right now, and I’ve been on the waiting list for weeks and
weeks, and it still has me at eight weeks away.
I can’t wait that long, so I wanted to know what other VPSs people are
using, and how they feel about them?
One thing I find really important is the ability to reinstall the OS
whenever I want. I really loved Rimuhosting VPS because their support
was amazing, but you could not reload the OS, which was a bit of a
bummer.
Matthew,
Tell Rimuhosting reloading the OS is important to you and maybe
they’ll reset your OS for free - they did for me.
Zack
On 31 Oct 2007, at 23:09, Zack C. wrote:
Tell Rimuhosting reloading the OS is important to you and maybe
they’ll reset your OS for free - they did for me.
Same here, we asked them to split up our dedicated server into a
number of vps’s and they did it absolutely for free. There might be
some boundaries to how many times you can ask, but their service is
as you said impecable.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
Yea, I guess I just like having the ability to install/upgrade/wipe my
VPS whenever I want, without feeling like I am bothering someone to do
it. Kind of like how Linode has things setup. I go with them, but I
prefer someone who is running Xen.
Ehhh, it’s a trade-off. If you want full control, run your own box 
Seriously though, rimuhosting is great, helpful, and just quality.
Linode
is pretty decent too tough.
Personaly I use railsmachine. A little pricey but great service, all
my tickets normally get resolved within an hour or so.
I am not sure if they do OS resetting but with there service, they
probably do.
I use Stevenson Software. The owner, Dave, has been great. And my
rails site runs nicely.
stevensonsoftware.com
knb
I REALLY like openhosting.com. Great uptime. NO Complaints. None.
100% Recommendation.
Check them out…
www.openhosting.com
~k
I use ServerAxis. $30/month for 512MB RAM/20GB HDD/400GB bandwidth
isn’t bad. It is Xen-based and it has a management console where you
can reload multiple Linux distros on command, start/stop/reboot server,
check server status, and watch bandwidth consumption for the month. No
problems yet, but I’ve only been with them for about three months.
I have waited for slicehost account for to menu weeks even I should
pay more months in advance.
Unfortunately, since I have just one life, I start to look to other
solutions.
At that time the RaislRumble take place and as a one of contestants I
have opportunity to use Linode (http://www.linode.com) VPS for 48
hours.
Before the voting was over I get me one VPS at Linode and I strongly
recommends them as VPS for a Rails development.
I’ve had a good time with http://vpslink.com for the past year or so.
StevensonSoftware is looking pretty cool. There website and control
panel seem to be running on Rails, that always a nice thing to see.
Prices are really good too. I think I might check them out.
I use stevensonsoftware.com, they provide ability to take a snapshot of
your vps. Hosting costs are very competitive. Support is very responsive
but you need to have a good knowledge managing a Linux server. They use
OpenVZ for the VPS.
I’ve had some luck with railsplayground.com. They’re super responsive,
but I’ve found not as great if you want to run with cpanel, as I had to.
You can pick and chose your VPS OS
Their wiki dosen’t as well maintained as hostingrails.com. Which makes
sense, since railsplayground seems to be a smaller operation. I’ve also
be referring their mongrel pages, which applies to a tiny chunk of the
community so, my assessment may not be entirely fair.
But other than that they’ve really bent over backwards to help me out on
several occasions, including a somewhat complex multi-hour long install
and set up of ffmpeg, numerous libraries and various tools.
They’re pretty cheap and very flexible. They haven’t turned down a
request yet, and have even proofed my ruby code for me on two occasions
when I thought there were issues the server.
I don’t have much experience with other RoR hosts, but if you’re looking
to be catered too and don’t need cpanel railsplayground might be worth
checking out.
Hi Matthew,
take a look at http://www.railshostinginfo.com for an overview of some
Rails VPS. It is easy to compare them and you can read reviews of people
using them.
Kind regards,
Nick