[Rails] Re: Re: Anyone has experience with railsplayground.com hosti

Carmen --- wrote:
> subimage interactive wrote:
>> I've found rimuhosting is the best solution for rails. Cop one of their
>> low-end VPS plans and you'll be super happy.
>
> VPS virtualizes an entire OS, right? that is overkill for running a
> rails app, youll get less out of the same hardware, and pay more for the
> privelege.

Actually, it's the best way to run a Rails app. Rails on shared hosting
is problematic at best.

For cheap and easy deployment, I recommend Heroku or Slicehost.

> theres no need to access system-dirs for an app anyways. a
> decent host will already have stuff you might want like various gems,
> imagemagick, etc - if not theres always add $HOME/bin to the env..

That never works properly, at least not in my experience. Sooner or
later you need root access.

Best,
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