Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] Web host with ruby on rails support?

[Jiten Bhagat]

Hi Chris,

You could try one of the hosting providers here, who specialise in 
hosting RoR apps:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts

Cheers,

Jits
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myExperiment Developer
University of Manchester



Chris Caston wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to run myExperiment but by webhosting provider 
> (nearlyfreespeech.net) does not seem to support Ruby on rails.
>
> > From their FAQ:
>
>
> What are the most common things that do not work on your system?
>
> Here are the things we are most often asked about that do not work 
> with our service:
>
> cron (this or a similar feature is on our to-do list)
> FastCGI / SCGI (this is not applicable in our hosting environment, 
> thus we do not offer it and programs written specifically to depend on 
> its API will not work)
> Gallery (or any application that has not been updated to work with PHP 
> safe_mode)
> Java Servlets / JSP (we have no plans to add server-side Java support 
> at this time)
> Ruby on Rails (this works, but the performance is wretched due to 
> Rails' unfortunate architectural dependency on FastCGI; note that 
> running Rails as a daemon is forbidden)
> mod_perl, mod_ruby, and mod_python
> Zope and other web application frameworks that depend on persistent 
> processes
>
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas, aside from hosting it on my own 
> Linux box?
>
> best regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
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