Host Gator Debuts Ruby on Rails
Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - February 7, 2007 - Shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, has introduced standard Ruby on Rails installation support for all of its customers. The free open source web application, was developed to provide more choices for web development environments, and also supports Ruby Gems.
Brent Oxley, President of Host Gator explained, “At Host Gator, we cater to the developer that is passionate about technology and needs all the tools at his disposal required to build dynamic web applications. Ruby on Rails is a quickly becoming one of the important web development standards and we would be remiss if we didn’t provide this support to developers who demand it.”
Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in the Ruby programming language, providing an efficient environment for web development, enabling developers to use some of the latest techniques for developing web applications.
Host Gator also announced support for some of the most popular Ruby Gems. A Ruby Gem is a plugin that adds functionality to the Ruby programming language. The pre-installed gems supported include actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, gnuplot, mongrel, mysql, tidy, xml-simple, payment, BlueCloth, feedtools and htmltools.
Host Gator is a provider of shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting services focused on the consumer and small business markets. Founded in 2002, Host Gator has become a leader in reseller hosting, assisting over 11,000 businesses become web hosting companies. Host Gator has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and its data center operations are co-located out of The Planet’s facility in Dallas, Texas, enabling it to access Tier-1 backbone providers such as UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio and AT and T and AboveNet. HostGator’s shared hosting plans are supported by HostGator’s 24/7/365 phone support, and comes with a 99.9% uptime and 30-day
money-back guarantee.
For more information about Host Gator, please visit: www.hostgator.com.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:12 am
As a reseller, i got some problems at hostgator hosting;
* The only way to setup a rails environment is connecting via ssh (jailssh)
* If you have any ssh access on your domains, you have to pay 10$ for each domain you need to ssh access.
* There is fcgi or mongrel option. Only cgi access and it is very slow.
* Support services are incredibly slow as one day even your ticket marked as urgent.
Conclusion, i do NOT recommended hostgator if you are using rails.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Avoid them for rails! They do not have fcgi so each page will take an incredibly long time to load, as you must restart the server afresh for each page request! ahh!