I got all excited this morning reading TechCrunch with their post about Rackspace Offerering Cloud Computing with Mosso. Once I clicked through to investigate further it seems the ‘new’ cloud hosting is just their old hosting plan with 30GB of storage slashed off (down to 50GB) so they can charge you 0.50/GB a month for any overage.
It’s the deal of the century!? a bonus $15/month to get back to their old limit of 80GB. Still no shell access, and still $25-85/month per Rails site.
I had high hopes for Mosso and Rails but after trying them I felt I was being nickeled and dimed, the lack of SSH didn’t bother me as they’re good about installing stuff for you, the kicker was $20/month if you wanted to add SSL. I also didn’t see marked speed improvements over shared (or grid) hosts like Media Temple (who host this blog, but not on the grid on a VPS).
All my Rails sites continue to be hosted on SliceHost, actually my secret recipe is a combo of Media Temple for email, FTP, and static stuff then either DNS trickery or .htaccess rewrites to apps on SliceHost. The best of both worlds.
Anyway I call shenanigans on Mosso.
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Hi there, I have hosting with Media Temple right now and am starting to get into rails development, I checked out slice host and they look good, I was wondering if you could provide some details of your secret recipe of using media temple for the email /ftp etc, how did you set it up and what is the benefit of doing so. Thanks.
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