Finding a RoR host and Installing Typo
April 8th, 2006
Overall, installing typo wasn't too horrible. Let's start at the beginning:
Earlier today, when I decided that I needed to start this blog, I looked around for a hosting provider. My primary criteria was that the provider needed to fully support Ruby on Rails, be forward thinking, appear professional and hopefully have an existing customer base that have already forged a path to Typo for me.
I found a list of Ruby on Rails hosting providers here. Looking around, I was drawn, for whatever reason, to RazorLogix.net. Nice site, great features, and the price was right.
Two things, though, sealed the deal with RazorLogix for me. First, my buddy, Lakshmi, uses TextDrive. Initially, I was really interested in TextDrive because it has a lot of buzz surrounding it. Unfortunately, when I looked at their plans, their $12/month plan only offers 3GB/month of bandwitdth. My other blog, TADSpot, on occaision rises up to almost 10GB of traffic in a month.
The other factor in RazorLogix favor is this fantastic article on Installing Typo over at Peter Arden's blog. Peter is using RazorLogix as well, and in email told me he'd had good success with them so far. So, I created RubyNoob.com and went for it!
So, to installing typo... I followed Peter's directions exactly. Everything worked as expected, except for the fact that I'm a bit of a tard. After following the directions, I couldn't figure out how to get to my Typo blog. So, I found some instructions mentioning symlinks, and I tried to set one up, but I did it wrong.
Check this link out to see how I resolved my problem. That, plus Peter's article were all I needed. Now I have typo up and running! Woooooooooooo!
June 10th, 2007 at 07:21 PM Glad my experience helped you get Typo going. Unfortunately, I didn't see your comment till just now, like a week later. Typo isn't mailing me new-comment notifications -- is that working for you?