[Ruby] MediaTemple GridServer Experiences?

[Michael Judge]

> You'll be hurting with only 64 MB RAM (if I understand their promo
> page correctly).

I agree, with 64MB I'd only have one process running.   The package I  
was actually considering was the 1GB one for $75/month.  I could run  
at least a dozen processes with that.

>> On Geoffrey's recommendation I'm using Rimu as well (although  
>> dedicated)...
>> their support kicks ass.  Beware though - their default Sarge box  
>> is a
>> frigging nightmare - they're running Sarge with a RedHat boot  
>> loader or some
>> such nonsense - so, if you go dedicated ask for Ubuntu to start  
>> off with
>> (this is from my Linux guy ... I'm obviously not the linux admin  
>> on this).

> I started off with Rimuhosting at 128 MB for about
> $25/month. 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).

Thanks for the tips.  I'll check out Rimuhosting, Amazon EC2, and  
EngineYard later today.

I think another thing that was appealing about MediaTemple's package  
was that they managed the servers.  I occasionally get burst traffic,  
so I feel I need a dedicated server.  But I really hate applying  
patches and getting an unmanaged server up (for example, turning on  
sendmail and ftp, worrying about breaking cPanel by installing  
mod_fastcgi, etc.)  It would be nice for the server to work out-of- 
the-box for once.

By the way, Geoffrey, I saw your talk on Graphing with Gruff at  
Canada on Rails.  It was one of the better talks of the conference  
and I got a lot out of it.

- Mike


On Oct 30, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Geoffrey Grosenbach wrote:

> 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
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