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I am also very interested in this. I need a JRuby hosting solution and there are not very many out there. Plus I would like to learn how to run my own server.

prgmr.com is out of space though. Does anyone know of anything else like this out there?

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Linode is my favorite having used both slicehost and linode. They recently doubled the ram offered compared to the same price point of slicehost. Though the admin interface of slicehost is better.

Blue Box Group, EC2, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Slicehost, ... there are a lot of options out there depending on the features you require and the level of support.

Getting a VPS is your best bet. Oddly, even though RAM is cheap these days, they are still stingy with it.

For learning, I'd start with the 256 or lowest RAM setup and plan to upgrade later if you get traffic.

Some of the most popular VPS hosts are linode and slicehost but there are many.

RAM being cheap is a relative thing.

It's cheap and easy to upgrade your laptop from 2GB to 4GB.

It can be expensive to upgrade your laptop from 4GB to 8GB, no matter how cheap the RAM itself is, because you might have to buy a new laptop to accomodate.

It's a much more expensive (and logistically difficult) task to roll out that kind of upgrade across a large hosting environment with hardware purchased over multiple deployments.

No doubt it's expensive, but it has been several years. A natural hardware refresh should have helped. Check out these guys getting it right:

http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-inc...

yeah... generally when you buy a box for VPS hosting, you fill it to capacity with ram... of late, the price/density of ram hasn't changed much, so usually you'll throw out the box and replace it when it's time for an upgrade.

None the less, new servers with lots of ram aren't that expensive. Registered ecc ddr3 is about $130 for each 4GiB stick, give or take, and that comprises about half the cost of a server with 8 cores and 32giB ram. (on the G34 platform, that's a single socket server)

For development, 256 works pretty well. If you host more than one site or have a lot of dynamically generated content, you can quickly surpass the 256MB limit and need 512MB.

This depends a lot on the stack you're using and what software your site depends on.

prgmr.com is often out of space. check every day or so, they're bound to offer more VPSs pretty soon.

prgmr.com should have a new server up within the next couple days.

To start out free, google app engine is a good way to go. It is a little quirky and different from most solutions, but it's great to start paying nothing.

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