Shared host that supports PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails?

Are there any shared hosts that support PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails? Dreamhost, my current host, doesn't.

Or maybe a VPS host. I kinda have a limited budget so prefer shared for now.

asked Mar 03 '10 at 11:42

katz
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edited Mar 03 '10 at 16:25

Randell ♦♦
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Care to share what is your budget?

(Mar 04 '10 at 03:56) Dexter T.

I'm paying around $150 per year for Dreamhost. Anything that exceeds $100 per year for a simple experimental project seems a lot for me. I'm just playing.

(Mar 04 '10 at 10:28) katz

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Hey All. Just want to say that I moved all of my sites to BurstNet VPS. Enjoying a lot of disk space and memory. Significantly cheaper compared to Linode and Slicehost. I have tried all of those options in the past.

Another good option which is not shared hosting is the free Amazon ECS instance. Or heroku.

I still use and prefer BurstNet VPS.

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answered Jan 16 '11 at 20:26

katz
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edited Jul 15 '12 at 01:34

Try fivebean, I got the link from StackOverflow and it's probably the cheapest VPS I've seen (6 USD/mo for their lowest plan of 5GB space/100 GB bandwidth a month). I haven't tried any of their services though but it's a probably worth the shot given the entry level price.

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answered Mar 03 '10 at 12:30

paul_sns
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Fivebean (VPS) is probably the cheapest one around.

(Mar 03 '10 at 16:24) Randell ♦♦

Best VPS I've found so far is ramhost. It's cheap and doesn't go down like fsckvps.com! I'm using the standard plan burstable to 768mb ram at 11.99/mo.

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answered Apr 06 '10 at 15:37

Ramon
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Interesting... their bonus plan is almost like the standard plan for fivebean. I like fivebean so far.

(Apr 06 '10 at 21:18) katz

looks like ramhost is suffering the same symptom as my dev vps host, delimiter, and that's always being sold out :D

(Apr 12 '10 at 03:03) sylv3rblade

ahh... never experienced any issues so far with fivebean/linode.

(Apr 13 '10 at 22:46) katz

But I might try ramhost next month. I am curious whether the lag is caused by Rails3 or my setup or just the webhost.

(Apr 13 '10 at 22:52) katz

WebFaction offers shared hosting that supports PostgreSQL and Rails. Their plans start at $5.50/month, which is good enough for relatively small apps.

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answered Aug 04 '10 at 11:32

Randell ♦♦
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I'm using BurstNet VPS - about 3 months now...

(Aug 06 '10 at 07:08) katz

You can post that as an answer, too. =)

(Aug 06 '10 at 07:46) Randell ♦♦

webfaction is what you want. They are amazing and support everything you might imagine, mysql, postgresql, latest versions of python, ruby, etc.

http://www.webfaction.com

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answered Mar 14 '11 at 07:07

lakinwecker
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In fact, NullPointer.ph is hosted by WebFaction. :)

(Mar 14 '11 at 20:16) Nikki Erwin Ramirez ♦♦

Dupe! http://nullpointer.ph/questions/905/shared-host-that-supports-postgresql-and-ruby-on-rails/2469

(Mar 15 '11 at 10:13) Randell ♦♦

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