T-P-L.com

I’m tired of not being able to properly run rails apps on Dreamhost (not really so annoyed with their recent downtimes as just not being able to run rails properly .. don’t believe them when you see “fully supported rails” on their website)

Long story short, they have aggressive scripts killing persistent processes (such as fastcgi’s) .. so even fcgi rails apps end up slow .. since they need to boot up rails fairly often on lower traffic sites ..

I came across a post on the onrails.org blog explaining their switch to a new VPS based host called SliceHost .. I took a look, liked the idea of a $20/month VPS .. and am in the middle of a switch .. I’m slowly switching services over and settings up things on the VPS .. I switched my name servers away from dreamhost’s back to Enom’s so I regain control of their locked records .. so thats switching around the world as I post this.

I started switching all the svn repositories over, and I’ll be switching dev.t-p-l.com over soon .. so in the unlikely case of someone using them .. thats why they’re down =)

I’m also going to take a plunge and switch my email to gmail hosted .. should make things easier .. just have to ease in my users to the switch before I flip the name servers (I’m going to have to end up needing to find some gmail hosted notifiers for windows .. oh well .. shouldn’t be that big of a deal)

p.s. if you end up choosing to get a slicehost account because of reading this blog, please put my email address as your referer when signing up its: piotr/dot/banasik/at/gmail/dot/com (of course turn this into a valid email address, use my my referer link)