Firstly, +1 for Heroku and Amazon S3. It's very cheap to start. If you really scale, there is a point where you might want to roll your own cloud hosting directly with EC2 to lower the costs, but it's really the perfect way to get started and can grow with you if it's worth continuing to pay the premium for the simplicity they provide.
rant Secondly, what's up with clients and GBP4/mo hosting? How much do you charge them an hour? Doesn't it cost more for them to get you to spend a few hours looking for a cheap host than it would for them to just pay for hosting? If a client isn't willing to pay GBP30-40 a month for hosting I have to question the value proposition of whatever they're having developed . . . (assuming it isn't a not for profit, a local club/group, etc). /rant Best Wishes, Peter On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:12 PM, David Kahn wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Bigos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am about to choose a hosting company for rails project. The site > isn't expected to be hight traffic but we will have at least half a > Gigabyte of files. > > If you are open to options not on your list, check out Heroku and use Amazon > S3 for your storage. I dont think you will find anywhere easier, cheaper and > reliable. You can start virtually free (just paying for your S3 storage), and > then you can scale on Heroku as needed. > > No I have a dilemma, and wonder what your > experiences were with my potential candidates. > > http://www.bytebob.com/uk/webhotel/ > http://www.site5.com/hosting/web/ > http://www.webhosting.uk.com/ > http://www.ilovethenet.co.uk/index/page/plans/ > > My client's current hosting company doesn't provide Rails hosting and > programming in PHP is a pain. > So if there's anything I should know about any of these companies or > if you can suggest another which will cost around £4 per month or less > then please let me know. > > Maybe if the needs grow we can decide to pay more but we don't want to > pay too much at the moment. > > Jack > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
