Reliable UK RoR Host

[monkeysmith]

Hi,

Currently have a hosting account with dreamhost. Cheap and cheerful, but a student is developing a Ruby on Rails based system for our ICT department website.

Something we aim to be using quite a bit for all ICT courses. There is the possibility of at least 120 simultaneous users. (1800 in the school). The host will need to be very reliable.

Also, I have a number of domains myself, so would like space and ability to add load of domains myself (about 10).

I know about the OcUK host review, but no mention of RoR, so asking for personal experience with them.

Thanks,

Richard

 

[suarve]

ochost review has information about people's experiences with the host. It's all there mate

 

[monkeysmith]

Yeah I know that, but I want some recommendations from RoR users.

 

[daz]

RoR tends to require a more specialist setup than most hosting environments - have you considered a dedicated or virtual dedicated server?

 

[Sic]

To be honest, that's the way I'm going to go, I think. I have so much trouble using hosting nowadays - I use a few extensions with PHP, then there's Python and RoR - it's just easier to do it yourself than ask your host to do it.

Just finding the time and the cash :/

 

[masslac]

I've heard good things about http://www.eukhost.com/

If it's a VPS you're after, Ubiquity Hosting are said to be the best.

 

[monkeysmith]

Yeah, starting to look at VPS now. Not sure what the budget will be yet, if it gets silly, may be worth building a machine a running the site internally. Though would still want it accessible online.