One of the biggest web hosts on the internet (Dreamhost) now supports Rails! Snipped this from the newsletter:
"If I wasn't making myself clear, DreamHost now supports Ruby on Rails
right out of the box (so no further need to follow the crazy
instructions for doing it yourself like people were posting at wiki.dreamhost.com), along with FastCGI (which you pretty much need -
unless you prefer Ruby on Snails).
That's about all there is to it, if you don't know what Ruby on Rails is, don't worry.. it's like a programming environment thing to help you make fancy web applications in the Ruby programming language lickety-split!"
On 7/6/05, bertrandmuscle@yahoo.com <bertrandmuscle@yahoo.com> wrote:
One of the biggest web hosts on the internet (Dreamhost) now supports
Rails! Snipped this from the newsletter:
"If I wasn't making myself clear, DreamHost now supports Ruby on Rails
right out of the box (so no further need to follow the crazy
instructions for doing it yourself like people were posting at
wiki.dreamhost.com), along with FastCGI (which you pretty much need -
unless you prefer Ruby on Snails).
very good for dreamhost to be one of the first of the popular hosts to be
off the blocks in supporting rails. i'm working on a rails app at dreamhost
right now - went halves with a friend in their code monster plan .. 2.8
gigabytes of space, oh yeah!
they also have a good collection of other ruby gems.
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One of the biggest web hosts on the internet (Dreamhost) now supports
Rails! Snipped this from the newsletter:
"If I wasn't making myself clear, DreamHost now supports Ruby on Rails
right out of the box (so no further need to follow the crazy
instructions for doing it yourself like people were posting at
wiki.dreamhost.com), along with FastCGI (which you pretty much need -
unless you prefer Ruby on Snails).
That's about all there is to it, if you don't know what Ruby on Rails
is, don't worry.. it's like a programming environment thing to help you
make fancy web applications in the Ruby programming language
Want to support Ruby? Use Textdrive (http://www.textdrive.com/\).
When you sign up a portion of your payment goes to the open source
project of your choice and Ruby is one of the choices. They are also
very cheap, stable, and DHH is associated with them.
Seriously Textdrive is a great deal.
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On 7/6/05, bertrandmuscle@yahoo.com <bertrandmuscle@yahoo.com> wrote:
One of the biggest web hosts on the internet (Dreamhost) now supports
Rails! Snipped this from the newsletter:
"If I wasn't making myself clear, DreamHost now supports Ruby on Rails
right out of the box (so no further need to follow the crazy
instructions for doing it yourself like people were posting at
wiki.dreamhost.com), along with FastCGI (which you pretty much need -
unless you prefer Ruby on Snails).
That's about all there is to it, if you don't know what Ruby on Rails
is, don't worry.. it's like a programming environment thing to help you
make fancy web applications in the Ruby programming language lickety-split!"
very good for dreamhost to be one of the first of the popular hosts to be
off the blocks in supporting rails. i'm working on a rails app at dreamhost
right now - went halves with a friend in their code monster plan .. 2.8
gigabytes of space, oh yeah!
Wow... the Code Monster plan is now 7.5 gigs, with 375 (!) shell
accounts, 3000 email-only accounts and 15 domains for $19.95 a month.
Maybe we can organize groups and go "thirds" on it!
If they oversell it, that fact is overshadowed by their great tech
support and glut of features for dwindling prices. Been a loyal
customer there for a few years now, and I'm very excited to see the
addition of rails (I emailed them about Ruby support once...) Just
waiting for my domain to trickle through before I start playing with
it...
Want to support Ruby? Contribute Ruby code, or write Ruby docs, or send money to Ruby Central, the Ruby non-profit. Or any combination of these.
Then pick the hosting service that best suits your hosting needs. (That may very well be TextDrive; I used them with a client and found the control panel awkward and the hosting options too limited.)
i've got a script running that pings my textdrive accounts once every ten
seconds... it fails about 40 times per day. multiply by 10 and guesstimate
that my sites are unavailable for about 400 seconds, or about 6 minutes, each
day. they claim it's due to people restarting apache via the webmin panel,
but that's tough if you are doing anything commercial - especially since the
price is already quite high...
IMHO the best way to support ruby is to contribute code.
cheers.
-a
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Dennis Roberts wrote:
Want to support Ruby? Use Textdrive (http://www.textdrive.com/\).
When you sign up a portion of your payment goes to the open source
project of your choice and Ruby is one of the choices. They are also
very cheap, stable, and DHH is associated with them.
Seriously Textdrive is a great deal.
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On 7/11/05, Dennis Roberts <denrober@gmail.com> wrote:
Want to support Ruby? Use Textdrive (http://www.textdrive.com/\).
When you sign up a portion of your payment goes to the open source
project of your choice and Ruby is one of the choices. They are also
very cheap, stable, and DHH is associated with them.
I think I may have phrased my initial question poorly, or its intent
was misunderstood; if that's the case, I apologize. I have had no
dealings with DreamHost, so I no reasons to say anything bad about
them, nor do I necessarily consider overselling bad. I had no hidden
subtext, agenda, aspersions to cast, etc.. When I asked "Does
Dreamhost oversell space?", what I wanted to know was whether or not
Dreamhost oversold space; nothing more.
I'm not sure where the "What is your problem?" came from, but that may
have been due to a misunderstanding of the question, and the English
vernacular.
Just setting the record straight.
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On 7/10/05, karlin.fox@gmail.com <karlin.fox@gmail.com> wrote:
If they oversell it, that fact is overshadowed by their great tech
support and glut of features for dwindling prices. Been a loyal
customer there for a few years now, and I'm very excited to see the
addition of rails (I emailed them about Ruby support once...) Just
waiting for my domain to trickle through before I start playing with
it...
I agree. At one point I was considering TextDrive because of all the good
things other railsers were saying about them, but the cost/benefit simply
wasn't worth it to me. After hearing your experience the decision becomes
that much easier.
I am only just getting started with rails on DreamHost, but so far I am very
pleased with their service, and the price is great.
Carl
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On 7/11/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> Seriously Textdrive is a great deal.
i've got a script running that pings my textdrive accounts once every ten
seconds... it fails about 40 times per day. multiply by 10 and guesstimate
that my sites are unavailable for about 400 seconds, or about 6 minutes,
each
day. they claim it's due to people restarting apache via the webmin panel,
but that's tough if you are doing anything commercial - especially since
the
price is already quite high...