Hosting Services for Grails Application
Thursday, June 12th, 2008I was looking for a hosting service for running my Grails and other Spring enabled Java applications. I was looking at both shared and virtual private servers. My Budget was $20.
GoDaddy: I was already using GoDaddy hosting services with Java support for about $7/month. While they claim to support Java applications, in practice it can run only simple ‘Hello World’ applications. They do not allow Spring/Hibernate enabled applications. So, this is not an option.
EATJ: They have a free service that allows you to upload war, restart your Tomcat. (But the server is automatically shutdown every 6 hours). This run Grails application. The Basic service with no server shutdown is $10/month. They offer only 64MB. What can you run with only 64MB? The next level of service offers 128MB and costs $20/month. You can upload your WAR, restart server. Nothing more.
RimuHosting: Offers VPS and runs Grails applications. Costs $20/month for 96MB. Lot of features, good support. I have also read good feedback on their service.
EAPPS: Offers VPS and supports Grails applications. Costs $20/month for 288MB. Tons of features - Tomcat, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Subversion, Wordpress, ssh/sftp, Apache, mod_jk, mod_proxy, root access etc. I dumped GoDaddy and have been using eapps for last few months. Great customer service.
My recommendation is eapps.