[Web4lib] webhosting

[Jesse Ephraim]

Ah!  I missed the Ruby on Rails part at the beginning of this thread.  Never mind ;)

Jesse Ephraim

Director, Roanoke Public Library
308 S. Walnut
Roanoke, Texas 76262
(817) 491-2691
jephraim at roanoketexas.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Singer [mailto:rossfsinger at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:44 PM
To: Jesse Ephraim
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] webhosting

>From the looks of what they support with regards to Ruby/Rails, I
would stay away from hostgator.com:

http://support.hostgator.com/articles/ruby-on-rails-and-gems

"RoR runs on Apache CGI."

which would have to be slowest, buggiest, least supported way to run it.

They also have Ruby 1.8.6, which is several years out of date.

So basically Ruby support is a really low priority or their
documentation for Ruby is really sloppy (and might speak towards the
former).

-Ross.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Jesse Ephraim
<jephraim at roanoketexas.com> wrote:
> I have had very good luck with hostgator.com over the past 7 or 8 years.
>
> Jesse Ephraim
>
> Director, Roanoke Public Library
> 308 S. Walnut
> Roanoke, Texas 76262
> (817) 491-2691
> jephraim at roanoketexas.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Degler, Roy
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:33 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] webhosting
>
> First off read host reviews at http://www.webhostingtalk.com.  Then when
> you have your short list, email each of the companies with questions,
> see how fast they reply and the quality of the responses.  Get on the
> host support forum and see what kind of conversation is occurring.
>
> I have used hostgator.com and hostpc.com for most of my sites.  I have
> helped others that use bluehost and heard good comments.  I had sites at
> dreamhost for quite a while but the sites got really slow, so that is
> when I moved to hostgator.  I work with one site on dreamhost for
> someone else and have not seen the slowness.
>
> All my experience has been with shared hosting accounts not virtual
> hosting or dedicated servers.  I am happy with both hostgator and
> hostpc.  But might try bluehost for my next hosting account.
>
> Also consider the control panel offered at the host.  Cpanel is the
> industry standard (hostgator and blue host use it).  Other choices
> include DirectAdmin (hostpc), plesk(????), and proprietary (dreamhost).
>
>
>
> Roy Degler
> Assistant Professor - Digital Library Services
> 215a Edmon Low Library
> Oklahoma State University
> Stillwater, OK 74078
> phone: 405 744-6541
> email: roy.degler @ okstate.edu
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