Dreamhost vs. HostingRails
Finally, got the time to get this blog going again. I’ve just moved from Dreamhost to HostingRails. I’ll offer a bit of comparison. Yes, those are referral links below because I’m greedy.
Dreamhost, on the My Crazy Domain Insane plan
- $120 per year
- Lots of bandwidth, which grows every month (I’m at 3 TB per month now)
- Lots of disk space, which grows every month (I’m at 259 GB now)
- Very functional administration screen, including click-to-installs
- PHP seems fine
- Rails was crashy, Dreamhost staff wouldn’t support it. Had to set it up myself
- Dreamhost set limits on the number of connections my site would accept without informing me, which makes the site unavailable. When they finally told me (after I reported the site was down) I was informed that this was because of CPU usage, but there was no explanation as to what level of usage caused the problem, nor any suggestions to fix it.
HostingRails, on the Basic plan
- $70 per year
- 50GB bandwidth
- 20GB space
- Flaky click-to-installs. More like “click to install then research which configuration files you need to edit”
- Rails is set up out of the box and works fine
In my opinion, HostingRails is definitely better than Dreamhost for Rails hosting. Dreamhost offers a ton more of bandwidth and disk space for a bit more, so it may be good for static or PHP sites.