Looking for shared hosting

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  1. grimreaper1377, Dec 30, 2008

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    Hello,

    I'm looking for a shared hosting plan that ideally, would have the following:

    - Not too much bandwith/hard drive space. Though many of them have INSANE deals on them since I guess they assume most people will only use 1% of what they're given :p
    - Ruby on Rails 2.0 or higher
    - PHP 4/5+
    - SVN/Git
    - ssh WITHOUT HAVING TO UPLOAD MY PHOTO ID (this is the main thing I am looking for)
    - 24/7 support via either email/phone
    - unlimited subdomains
    - 99.9% uptime guarantee

    I'm not willing to pay more than $7-8/month.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. angelneo, Dec 30, 2008

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    A shared hosting with SSH seems very unlikely. The cheapest I can think of is $25/month on a VPS plan.
     
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  3. tominated, Dec 30, 2008

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    you won't get ssh on a shared host. reason being is that with root access, you can look at other peoples stuff too
     
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  4. grimreaper1377, Dec 30, 2008

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    Thanks for the input. That's strange though, since I thought that SSH is how you get Rails apps up and running?
     
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  5. chilipie, Dec 31, 2008

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    A Small Orange give SSH access on request… don't know about SVN/Git, but for everything else I'd highly recommend them :)
     
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  6. angelwatt, Dec 31, 2008

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    But you don't have to have root access just to do SSH. I'm with Dreamhost and can SSH into my account. Very handy for setting up cron jobs.

    Dreamhost also has Ruby on Rails, SVN (not sure about the git part), PHP of course (4 or 5), 24/7 email support, additional domains registration, unlimited subdomains, 97-day money back guarantee, and a reasonable uptime as far as my experience. The pricing varies depending on your plan, but can be as low as $6/month. Plan details.
     
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  7. grimreaper1377, Dec 31, 2008

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    Thanks for all the input. I ended up going with Dreamhost. Couldn't resist the 77 cents per month price with promo code 777. ;)
     
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  8. exabytes18, Jan 1, 2009

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    That's theft right there. Haha, kidding of course.

    The one thing I love about dreamhost is all the features they offer. SVN, SSH, external MySQL access, they have Java installed on their machines... tons of little things. They are beginning to migrate away from their downtime-prone centralized architecture which should improve their reliability. Good choice.
     
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  9. jimishjoban, Jan 1, 2009

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    Hey,

    I think HostGator should be a nice choice for you. I recently got it to host my rails application.

    They have all gems installed and provides jailed SSH access, which you need for running your rails app.... They have 3 plans for shared hosting, I guess, but baby plan for 8$ has unlimited domains... if thats what you need...

    I would strongly recommend HostGator for rails hosting.
     
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