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📣 calebjosue

Do you guys have a recommendation for Ruby Web Hosting


Right now I am using Gandi (Great Customer Support) web hosting to host my website (Mostly static pages).

However they are dropping support for Ruby starting April 17, 2023. According to this email I've received today.

================================= Dear customer,

We are contacting you today to notify you that as of April 17th 2023 at 12:00 UTC, we will no longer be supporting Ruby on our "Web Hosting" and "Simple Hosting" products.

The Ruby language will no longer be offered for new instance creations and we will not be providing any more updates. Your existing instances will not be impacted with the exception of the lack of these updates.

We have been working on improving our platform so as to allow supporting a greater number of languages more easily. For the moment, however, in order to guarantee you the best security for your site, we can only offer Ruby deployments on a VPS.

Our customer service team remains at your disposal for assistance in this operation, or for any additional information you may require:

We thank you for your trust,

Sincerely, The Gandi Team ===========================

They will still support Ruby over a VPS, but I was more than cool using their PAAS solution.

Do you guys have a favorite hosting for Ruby tech stack?

Thanks!!!


  👤 leros Accepted Answer ✓
I'm happy with Heroku for my Express apps. Point it at a repository and it mostly just runs your app. I'm sure it the same for Ruby.

Render is a newer alternative that is popular.


👤 calebjosue
Thank you all four your taking the time to answer.

👤 petercooper
Render, fly.io and Railway will all give you great options to explore and not too expensive either (indeed, Fly has quite a generous free provision).

👤 jzombie
A cheap VPS from Digital Ocean or Vultr might be all you need.

👤 suryao
If you want to base this on AWS/GCP and are building for scale, I'm building argonaut.dev which is a k8s PaaS among other things. Happy to help.

👤 rickcarlino
NorthFlank feels like a halfway point between Heroku and Digital Ocean. I'm very pleased with the service so far.

👤 dyeje
I’d probably do Render these days.