[Ruby] MediaTemple GridServer Experiences?

[Geoffrey Grosenbach]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Michael Judge wrote:
> Speaking of rails hosting, I'm paying a bloody fortune for dedicated
> servers.  Recently, I read about MediaTemple's GridServer hosting
> package* and am seriously considering switching.  I'm a worrier
> though.  Have any of you tried it?

You'll be hurting with only 64 MB RAM (if I understand their promo  
page correctly). I started off with Rimuhosting at 128 MB for about  
$25/month, which is the minimum I would run a Rails site on. (See  
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/ 
rails_full_stack_memory_usage.html ). It has been super reliable and  
I just installed Apache2 + Mongrel this weekend.

Several other companies also have grid computing plans (Amazon EC2,  
EngineYard.com).

Geoff