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I am wondering about the best hosting for Rails 3.1 app based on ruby 1.9.2+. Firstly I tried Site5. Unfortunately, in the time when I tried it, they supported only ruby 1.8.7 and also, the app ran me there a bit slowly.

Then I tried (and still use) Heroku. The deployment is comfortable and that't what I absolutely the most like. But when my app use only 1 dyno, so in a moments is the app so slow (idle dyno) -> the solution are 2 dynos. But in this case - the buying second dynos costs ±$35/montly - this is not so cheap.

So I would like to ask you about your experiences - what do you prefer? Could you recommend me a good hosting solution or any Heroku like site (I know EngineYard)?

My requirements: fast run of an app, easy deployment and acceptable monthly price.

Thanks for your views.

user984621
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You can use something like pingdom to ping your app every couple minutes or so. That will prevent the 1 web-dyno from going idle. If that is your only issue this may be enough.

On the other hand you could also use Linode or Amazon AWS of course but it will not be as easy to deploy/maintain as Heroku is. Hope that helps.

Yuri
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Currently, my personal best experience belongs to Engine Yard, which at least meets your first 2 requirements.

It is pricy comparing with Linode and Heroku(w/ a few dynos). If you want to choose one between EY and AWS, I will say definitely EY, which is a bit more expensive than AWS(actually it is based on Amazon EC2), but much more convenient in terms of deployment.

You shall give a trial on EY's free 500 hours and experience it.

aquajach
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