Thanks, folks, for the various suggestions, which I'm still checking out. A few points to share along the way are as follows. A wiki listing Ruby on Rails providers is at http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts It is advertizing information posted by each hosting service, but a start for comparing companies who are trying to distinguish themselves with this service among others. The original author of Ruby on Rails refers to http://joyent.com as the "official" hosting service. The site http://TextDrive.com goes to the same company. http://BlueHost.com seems to go to the same site as http://HostMonster.com even though different company names are used. I wonder if one company bought the other at some point. Jamal __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind