First Post and Hosting Fun
So here is my first post running the spectacular Typo blog Rails app. Typo seems pretty cool so far. I love the admin interface: simple, elegant, yet flexible.
So how am I running a Rails application on 1and1 hosting? I’m not. My free preview account from 1and1 (which was just fine for PHP) expires on the 31st of January, so I had to switch hosts. I also had a domain registered through them (samandjanali.com), so I had to move that as well. Who did I decide to move to?
They have some very good pricing and seemingly unending amounts of storage and bandwidth for your hosting plan (they increase every week indefinitely). They said they hosted Rails and let you install new Gems too, so I signed up.!
Yeah, not smart. I should have done more questioning and research.
They are using Apache/FastCGI, which isn’t bad really, but there is something that makes me not like DreamHost right now. They have some kind of watchdog process that seemingly randomly kills my dispatch.fcgi processes! Not to mention that their protocol for restarting a Rails app is kill -9‘ing any ruby dispatch.fcgi process 
Support has been very good with DreamHost so far, so we’ll see if they have any solution for the killing my processes thing (resulting in very bad Internal Server Error 500 errors once and awhile). Hopefully they can resolve the issues and everything will be fine and dandy. I am really not in the mood to change hosting again.