The Problem with Shared Hosting Thursday, January 10, 2008
There’s been quite a bit of talk in the last few days about the state of shared hosting as it relates to the ever-so-popular world of web frameworks. I’ve struggled with this myself, and I understand that it basically amounts to the fact that this kind of web development is new. Newer than the people who are used to throwing .php files on a server are accustomed (myself included).
James Bennett and DHH both think this is time for the web hosts to start putting in work to make this easier for developers. I agree that it’s in web hosting providers’ best interest to make the process easier. However, I also think this is a great opportunity for code monkeys (I’ll count myself as one) to really understand what goes into making a web server tick. There’s more going on than the world of PHP and shared hosting would have you believe.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Hey Trey, its Taylor from Spankies.
I know this is an old article, so you might have already have heard of it.
It being Phusion’s Passenger (aka mod_rails). I have recently tried it out on Dreamhost shared servers, and it works great. So easy, so painless.
Hope to see you at Spankies soon!
PS. Let me know if there is going to be any good web development conferences in Nashville, I’ll take you out for a beer at Bosco’s or something.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Yeah, I have heard of Passenger. Looks really cool, but I imaging it doesn’t make DreamHost any faster! :)