Mohammed NaserVEXXHOST was created in 2006 and opened its virtual doors as a web hosting provider. VEXXHOST now offers Public, Private and Hybrid cloud all powered by OpenStack.
We are extremely excited to make the announcement that you can run Ruby on Rails 3 applications on our cPanel shared and semi-dedicated web hosting platforms. We have been working and testing this for the past weeks in order to make sure that it is launched as smooth as possible. The implementation that we created is completely transparent and you can create and manage applications from cPanel just like any other provider, however only with VEXXHOST that you can host your Ruby on Rails 3 application.
For those who are curious about the technicalities behind this, the issue was that by default, cPanel uses Mongrel which does not support Ruby on Rails 3 at the moment because of it's entire overhaul and it's conversion to a Rack application. We studied all the alternatives and the most popular and impressive choice, Passenger, came up first. We have made modifications to the backend of the control panel, which allowed us to use Passenger to run applications in the background.
We are extremely proud of this announcement and we hope to bring more features to our hosting platform, which are not available with any other provider. We are also working on a lot of other features that will be unique to our hosting platform and not available with any other company.
If you require any assistance in setting up your Ruby on Rails 3 application on cPanel, please contact our support team. If you're looking to host your Ruby on Rails 3 application on a shared hosting account, you can get started easily today as low as $3.99.
Read more about Rails Hosting
If you are interested in reading more blog posts, you can always check out the VEXXHOST blog located on our website which includes many more interesting blogs and tutorials! If you have any questions concerning this blog or in general, feel free to communicate with us through our Contact Us page. One of our support team members will be more than happy to assist you and answer all your questions.
Don't forget to follow us on Twitter for announcements, updates and news regarding VEXXHOST and cloud computing in general – @vexxhost.