Rails Hosting is Expensive
In my experience, to serve rails applications reliably you need to be running them with a static instance. (a process which runs all the time). Commonly this is one or more mongrel or fastcgi processes.
The problem is that this uses quite a bit of server resource so not many account can exist in a shared hosting environment.
On top of this, its recommended to be on a shared server with limited accounts or even better a Xen based VPS such as railsmachine
The problem with these solutions is that they are quite expensive for the cheap ass developer (me!). Shelling out something in the region of £30 per month to host 2-3 rails applications is quite a lot of money when its likely that they wont be making any.
I may have to bite the bullet and start paying for a VPS but in the meantime does anyone have any recommendations for cheap, reliable rails hosting which is going to give me a few static instances?