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

Question

I was wondering what people think is currently the best host for Ruby on Rails. I found some older posts on here on the subject but I wanted to know what the current agreement is. Shared hosting is ok for now but I would like an option from dedicated hosting later.

Thanks!

Answer 1

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.