[starman]

I'm working on a Rails app on my Mac and I'd like to migrate it to a real host as painlessly as possible.

I'm thinking Dreamhost, but I don't know how well the migration will go.

I don't need to take the database, just the rails app itself.

Anyone?

[starman]

EDIT: Thanks for moving this to the right forum.

[naphtali]

I haven't been following developments in the RoR community tightly, but I remember there was controversy over Dreamhost a while back. If you do a search I think you will find a post with DHH's response and a few with alternative recommendations.

Update: here it is - The deal with shared hosts
I think you might be able to find a few more surrounding the issue


Also, I believe there's a new webhost that just went online 1-2 months ago offering total customisation? E.g. you could run Microsoft SQL Server + Linux on the same IP address or something like that.

There's been a lot of talk of how RoR doesn't seem to scale very well when it comes to deployment. What have you experienced about it so far?

[starman]

Nothing yet. My little project is only running on my Mac at the moment so only a few people have seen it.