[retro]

I wonder how many of these recommendations are sponsorship-based. Linode is curiously missing in favor of Slicehost. Considering the recent discussion here regarding changes to Slicehost's pricing options, this seems like either a striking omission or an outright plug.

[acangiano]

Hi retro, I tried to include companies that I had some experience with or that had been really recommended to me by people I trust. I use Slicehost for most of my sites, and I'm very happy with them, and that's why I included them. Some people say that Linode is just as good, or even better, but I haven't tried them first hand for anything Rails related. I actually mentioned Linode in the Slicehost paragraph, but didn't include them in the ordered list. Given the many mentions and recommendations (including Peter's below) I edited the post and included Linode along with Slicehost.

For full disclosure:

REFERRAL HOSTS (3):

HostGator

HostingRails

Slicehost

NON-REFERRAL HOSTS (6):

Linode

Brightbox

Rightscale

EngineYard

Mor.ph

Heroku

[antirez]

I know Antonio, no chances Linode is missing for something related to sponsorship. But indeed yes I think Linode is very worth to mention, as it works well and especially since Slicehost has not EU datacenters, while Linode provides UK datacenters. Really important if you want to deploy, for instance, for Italy.