Usually in the past I’ve done my web hosting on either one of the many servers I own or utilizing VPS hosting providers like VPSfarm.com, GrokThis.net or Linode.com, but lately with the economy and a price that can’t be beat I’ve been using Web.com‘s Linux Hosting plan to meet my needs. This has met all my requirements except one, I couldn’t run my Ruby on Rails applications that I was working on development for using their services. Well until now that is… Thanks in part to a great Systems Engineer that I’ve had the pleasure of working with and knowing great strides had been made to improve the feature set to the level that a power user like myself would appreciate adding even more value to the offering.

Recently there had been work being done to add FastCGI access to the Linux Hosting plan which already offers PHP5, Python 2.4 and Perl 5. Ruby is still not available on the system as a whole; however, that doesn’t stop you from adding it to your own account which is precisely what I did. Armed with the ability to test out FastCGI I proceeded to work on getting a very simple test RoR app setup and running.

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So as an independent consultant in this tough economy I take projects as they come along, regardless of the content. In this recent instance I took on a adult-oriented content site, Alternative Haven, and had setup a PayPal donation link. Now I had been a PayPal user since way back in 2000 shortly after PayPal sprung into existence in 1999. I was very careful to read the User Agreement and the Acceptable Use Policy and have not had any cause for alarm since then. Between 2000 and 2004 I was receiving payments fairly regularly while I ran a LiveJournal-clone site called UnderGrid Journals, but those payments ceased when the site was taken down in early ’04. Since then it has been used regularly by me to pay for conference tickets and also my wonderful Xen VPS hosting service through VPSFarm.com.

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So we’re currently working on an adult-oriented website in Ruby on Rails. The project is pretty daunting so we’re looking for potential assistance in putting some of the pieces together.

If you have any Rails experience, are interested and don’t have a problem working on an adult-oriented website then please get in touch with a sample of your work. Given the nature of the site and the fact it is in stealth development mode we have to be vague on the details at this time.