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Posted by Justin Losh
Justin Losh
789 Points

Hosting Providor

Hello All, I'm in the market for a new hosting providor and was curious as to what providors others use. I've used Media Temple, Dreamhost, and other cPanel hosting providors. I'm starting to grow tired of Media Temple. I have a couple basic requirements:

  • Support for Ruby on Rails
  • Able to host multiple domains, in addition the ability to host an SSL Cert for each domain
  • I prefer not to use cPanel as the control panel
  • SSH Access

Thanks!

5 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

In hosting world it's really only a choice between shared hosting or VPS. The vast majority of all shared hosting uses cPanel with a few that use Plesk, I don't know of any Plesk hosts off the top of my head.

The only shared hosting environment that I know of off the top of my head that supports Ruby on Rails is A Small Orange.

If you comfortable with Linux, you might think about a VPS from either of those providers.

Justin Losh
Justin Losh
789 Points
Justin Losh
Justin Losh
789 Points

I'm not sure if it is just me, but I've seriously grown to hate cPanel with a passion. I first started out with it, but then switched to DreamHost (Custom) and then Media Temple (Plesk).

Simon Rowe
Simon Rowe
1,321 Points
Simon Rowe
Simon Rowe
1,321 Points

I'd look at buying yourself a cloud server from someone like 1and1 or any of the other big names. Get a root server that you will configure yourself, a bit of a learning curve but well worth it.

if you find you have outgrown it move to a dedicated root.

Justin Losh
Justin Losh
789 Points
Justin Losh
Justin Losh
789 Points

Yeah, I was thinking about just going with Digital Ocean (www.digitalocean.com). I've used them for a couple things and they're pretty awesome.

John Wheal
John Wheal
27,969 Points
John Wheal
John Wheal
27,969 Points

Have you thought about using Linode?

Amazon Web Services are also good if you know what you are doing.