Entries published on January 13, 2008

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Shared hosting is not a ghetto

In the wake of the Dreamhost blog’s post on Rails and shared hosting, there’s been a bit of a meme going around with respect to deploying frameworks like Rails (or Django, or TurboGears…), and which more or less consists of people asking why, if you’re using one of these frameworks, you’re not just ponying up for a VPS or dedicated server. After all, it’s not like the offerings these days are that much more expensive than commodity shared hosting.

There are some problems with this attitude, some of which are elegantly characterized by a comment on Twitter developer Alex Payne’s …

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