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Every Shared Hosting Plan Includes:

  • No Setup Fees
  • Fast Activation [?]
  • 30-Day Money Back Guarantee [?]
  • 99.9% Uptime Guarantee [?]
  • SSH Access [?]
  • Unlimited Databases
    • MySQL 5.x
    • PostgreSQL 8.x
    • SQLite 3.x
  • Unlimited Domains
    • Fully-hosted addon domains
    • Subdomains
    • Parked domains
  • Unlimited Email Accounts
    • POP3
    • IMAP
    • Mailman mailing lists
    • SMTP server w/ authentication
    • Auto-responders
    • Forwarders
    • Aliases
    • Catch-all forwarders
    • Spam Assassin
    • Web-Based Email
  • Unlimited FTP Accounts
  • Optimized Ruby on Rails Hosting
  • Unlimited dispatch.fcgi instances
  • Updated and Robust Software
    • Apache 2.2.x
    • Ruby 1.8.x
    • Rails 2.x, 1.x
    • PHP 5.x
    • Perl 5.x
    • Python 2.x
    • Subversion 1.4.x
  • Tons of Pre-Installed RubyGems [?]
  • Bugzilla Hosting
  • Dual Opteron CPUs with RAID 5 Data Protection
  • 50+ One-Click Installs [?]
  • New cPanel 11 Control Panel [?]
  • 24/7/365 Support
  • World-Class Tier-Four Datacenter

Transferring from another host?

Treat yourself to less downtime, faster servers, and Rails-savvy support. Whether in a shared or dedicated environment, we're here to help you with a seamless and rapid transition. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions before signing up.

New to Rails Web Hosting?

Let your first experience be your best. We offer a wide variety of scalable hosting options and plenty of finely-tuned tutorials for Rails development, deployment, and error resolutions. We also offer custom Rails deployment services where we get your app live in production for you and teach you how we did it...Learn more >

Not sure which kind of hosting plan meets your needs?

Shared? Reseller? Virtual Dedicated? Dedicated? Often times there is confusion about what you need and how you can scale up/down accordingly. Learn more >

What can I do with a HostingRails.com account?

Beginning webmasters

You can develop your website with FrontPage or a similar editor, easily upload your files, have your site up and running in no time, and take advantage of unlimited email hosting, webmail, and mailing lists that we offer. Plus, if you want to venture into PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, etc... you can!

Perl, Python, and/or PHP developers

If we don’t have a module or plugin installed that you need, let us know and we'll install it for you. Your site will be in a stable Linux Hosting environment (RedHat Enterprise 4), in a tier-four datacenter. Plus, because we target the Rails community, our servers are less packed than the industry standard because we offer static FastCGI and Mongrel instances that use a large amount of memory.

Ruby/Rails developers

Here’s what it comes down to; we're here to provide you with the most robust and stable hosting environment for your Rails application that the industry has to offer. We love to see our client sites' become successful, survive various web phenomena like Slashdotting and/or the Digg Effect without downtime, and scale up accordingly to dedicated environments.

Shared Hosting Plan Costs & Comparisons

Beginner Basic Professional Business Platinum
Disk Space 5.0 GB 20.0 GB 35.0 GB 50.0 GB 75.0 GB
Monthly Bandwidth 20.0 GB 50.0 GB 75.0 GB 100.0 GB 150.0 GB
Monthly Price [?] (USD) $3.59 $5.59 $9.79 $13.98 $19.98
Dedicated Memory Included [?] 0 MB 0 MB 50 MB 100 MB 150 MB
Additional Memory (50 MB units / month) $8.00 $5.00 $4.00 $4.00 $4.00
Mongrel / mod_rails (Passenger) Hosting [?] optional optional
Mongrel Cluster Hosting [?] optional optional optional
LightTPD Hosting w/ static FastCGI [?] optional optional
TurboGears Hosting optional optional optional
Django Hosting optional optional optional
Multi-User SVN [?] $3 / month $3 / month
Trac Hosting [?] $3 / month $3 / month
Dedicated IP Address $3 / month $3 / month $3 / month $3 / month $3 / month
Nightly Backups $3 / month $3 / month $3 / month $3 / month $3 / month
Monit Hosting [?] $2 / month $2 / month $2 / month $2 / month $2 / month
Additional 1GB Disk Space $1 / month $1 / month $1 / month $1 / month $1 / month
Additional 1GB Bandwidth $0.25 / month $0.25 / month $0.25 / month $0.25 / month $0.25 / month
Custom Rails App Deployment [?] $79.00 / app $79.00 / app $79.00 / app $79.00 / app $79.00

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Why choose HostingRails.com as my Ruby on Rails Hosting provider?

Because we love Ruby on Rails and expect our clients to actually use it!

Most hosting companies dread Ruby on Rails because it uses more system resources than other languages, which means they cannot pack as many clients into a server. In fact, we've heard a confession from a major hosting company that they decided to support Rails only because too many customers were crashing their servers with custom installs. :)

Our support staff are experienced with Rails!

Too many hosting companies are staffed by employees who don't know Rails and don't have time to learn it. Many clients come to us seeking refuge from the frustration they have experienced with their old hosts.

We respond quickly to necessary updates and security patches for Rails

For example, remember the sudden Rails 1.1.5 - 1.1.6 security releases back in 2006? The quick 2.0.2 release at the end of 2007 which allowed, for example, rails:freeze:gems to work with RubyGems 0.9.5? Our servers were updated within hours of each announcement. Because we're focused on Ruby and Rails and develop exclusively with it ourselves, it's naturally easier for us to stay on top of the latest news.

We have user-developed, step-by-step tutorials to help you deploy and troubleshoot Rails applications on our servers

Check out the QuickStart Deployment Tutorials section of our site and see the support that is already available to you online.

We are happy to install RubyGems for you!

Just ask us what you need and we'll hook you up.

We keep up with the flow of Rails information

Our RSS readers are full of Rails feeds, our IRC clients are full of Rails chatter, our monitors are full of Rails screencasts, and our iPods are full of Rails podcasts. Essentially - we try to keep up and stay as responsive as possible.