Best hosting for Ruby on Rails (as of 2012) [closed]

Answer 1

I think the best choice is AWS or Heroku

Answer 2

Even though some will complain, Heroku is still the best in my mind. Super easy to set up, super easy to scale. You can deploy to Heroku in all of 2 minutes. Best of all, it's free with basic usage.

Another thing I like about Heroku is that it has an unparalleled community using it, which means a lot of support on StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/heroku).

If you need to know what ratio of web/worker dynos you'd need, look here: Heroku: web dyno vs. worker dyno? How many/what ratio do I need?

Although keep this in mind: it will be a while until you need to scale. As 37signals says, deal with scaling when you have that problem.

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If you're looking for more flexibility, Amazon EC2 is always a good option. You pay only for what you use, which is always nice.

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Linode is still decent, and fairly cheap too.

Answer 3

It all depends on what you are building and how you are building it. If you app is pretty straight forward rails app and you are not doing anything special on the system level (lets say working with transcribing video in a way that heroku add-ons would support it) than heroku is probably one of the fastest way to get started an move along. If you are are building something on the system level where you app needs to have access to anything on the system you probably better off going with linode or AWS route, It also depends alot about the level of control/responsibility your are looking for.

THere is also survey being done right now about this very topic, they havent published the 2012 results but 2009 are available:

http://rails-hosting.com/Results/SurveySummary.html