Affordable Ruby on Rails Hosting

Ruby on Rails has taken the web development world by storm. This MVC or Model View Controller application framework is built upon the Ruby language, is object oriented, and writes a lot of the code for you. Not only is Ruby on Rails a fast platform to get started with, you can often accomplish a lot in a lot less code than Java or PHP.

Good Ruby on Rails hosting is hard find. One of the reasons is that Ruby on Rails is hard to run in a shared enviroment because of the overhead of the processes. Ruby on Rails doesn't run all that hot on regular CGI with Apache which leaves us with FastCGI SCGI, or Mongrel. Both of which are hard to configure to work well in a shared enviroment without chancing really overloading or crashing the server. Depending on the size and use of your app, there are a variety of rails hosting options. One being a FastCGI configuration

If a host using FastCGI and killing off the process every couple of minutes is too limiting for you, we reccomend going with a host that is using Apache and Mongrel in tandem. Even in the shared enviroment this can perform acceptabley for a small to mid sized Ruby on Rails application. Beyond this, we would really reccomend looking at a VPS hosting or dedicated server hosting enviroment where you have complete control of the server and it's resources.

At Affordable Hosting Center, we have worked with all types of rails hosting and can refer you to some of the better outfits. We really have some good contacts in the dedicated server market that could offer some solid solutions for larger production Ruby on Rails applications. Your own server may be cheaper than you think!

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