Axishost lackluster Rails support
As I get more comfortable with Ruby on Rails development, I have been looking to take advantage of Subversion and FastCGI – tools that are vitally important to any halfway decent rails environment. Subversion (with Capistrano) helps automate deployment, while FastCGI helps your rails web pages load quickly. At the moment, my website seems sluggish at best.
My hosting provider, Axishost , does not seem concerned about providing either of these tools to its customers. When I asked about subversion support, I got the following response:
Thanks but no thanks guys. I picked this host specifically because it advertised that it supports Ruby on Rails (and its 99.9% uptime guarantee is pretty nice). The reality seems that Axishost only partially supports Ruby on Rails. This environment is not good enough for any Rails application worth a damn.
Hi Chris, At this point there are no plans to add subversion to the servers, nor is it on schedule for the near future. If the demand increases it may become a more viable option, but at this point it is not.
Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you!
It was the same story regarding FastCGI
FastCGI is not installed.
Get it together Axishost
I was most recently a customer with AxisHost for many years. But eventually, I discovered all my bandwidth allotment was being eaten up by Asian sites whose IP addresses should have been more closely monitored through their Firewalls. I decided to leave Axist Host, the beginning of June 2009. They cancelled my account, effective June 23, 2009 and still submitted an invoice for July’s monthly premium and received the money for July’s premium via PayPal. I exchanged emails with Tina Peters, the Pres of Axishost who claims she is rightfully entitled to the monies. There are tons of Web Hosting Companies out there, including. Microsoft, who will host your doamin for free. This company and this woman who heads it is a disgrace and an embarrassment. Complaints have been lodged with the State Attorney General’s Office of Michigan as well as the BBB who handles the Grand Rapids area. By the way, Axishost does have an F rating with the BBB. Do yourself a favor, STAY AWAY from Axishost! They’re bad news.