Moving to VPS

In an update to my previous post, I’ve decided to move to a VPS package with my host RailsPlayground.

Scout has been fantastic at pointing out, the obvious, in that a FastCGI instance is not holding up my site that gets around 200,000 page views a month (80% from spiders and the like…), and that I need to move to a new configuration.

RailsPlayground have a sale on currently on their VPS, which gives me 512Mb RAM, 20Gb disk space and 200Gb monthly bandwidth for only $25 a month, so I’m going to go for this, for many reasons.

Rails deployment and server setup has been something I’ve hidden away from for too long, and it’s about time I got my hands dirty and knew what I was talking about, instead of just talking a lot…

Does anybody have suggestions for operating system or deployment configurations?