Max Kiesler - Web Design, SOMA San Franciso

Great Hosting Provider for Ruby On Rails

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After playing around with many inline AJAX applications I finally decided to take the dive an try to develop my own web app. The first thing I needed to do was find a host that already had Ruby On Rails installed and configured on their servers. This proved to take much longer than I had expected.

With traditional hosting you can be set up in a matter of minutes however, with ruby hosting your options a far more limited. After finding the official Ruby On Rails hosting page I started clicking on hosts only to find the official ROR hosting service Textdrive not accepting new clients and no date when they would. Humm, so next I clicked on RailsAppHosting only to find they were also closed for business at the moment.

Wow, is Rails so popular right now that I will not be able to find hosting? Just when I thought all hope was lost, it’s Grokthis to the rescue! It’s a bit more expensive than some services but what you get is worth it. Every Advanced account comes with its own webserver process, which users can control and modify. Apache 1.3, 2.0, and Zope servers are available. Other webservers and may be installed and used by clients if desired. It also comes with Fast CGI and the Ruby framework already installed. Now I’m off to play with my new Apache server.

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