This blog and iplayerlist (which I will go into more detail in a later post) are hosted at Slicehost. I think its wise just to go through how everything is set up over here.

This is on the cheapo slice with 256mb of memory. Thats enough for me.

I used deprec to set up everything over here. It didn’t work straight off the bat and required a little tweaking but the resulting server setup is pretty much ideal for my needs.

• Ubuntu Gutsy
• Ruby on Rails 2.0
• Mysql
• Apache2 with mod_proxy
• mongrel cluster application servers. (one for the blog and 2 for iplayerlist)
• subversion source management
• capistrano deployment (this end)
• mephisto blogging system

I went with slicehost after I finally got annoyed at dreamhost. Now dreamhost is awesome and very cheap but for Rails apps it really doesn’t cut the mustard. Its FastCGI was slow and rails apps were a pain to set up. Slicehost offered a blank canvas which I could install what I wanted and can only blame myself if something goes horribly wrong, hurray! :)