Damnit Bluehost and your gem updates!

I host some stuff with bluehost and I have to say that I am pretty fed up with them and shared hosting! I know shared hosting is never a good idea but for something as simple as http://isitabugorfeature.com it should be a non-issue. Bluehost has “rails support” but the assholes keep updating gems without letting anyone know and there isn’t a list or anything I can subscribe to that would let me know about these sort of very relevant updates. I have been burned again.

Today someone mentioned to me that bug or feature was down and I logged in and found that, sure enough, they had updated the rails gem. So I changed my gem requirement in my environment.rb file but my app relies on some 2.2.2 specific stuff so it wouldn’t start. So, I am forced to get the rails-2.2.2 tag from github and put it in vendor/rails to get the site back up again. I am so tired of this. I am done with bluehost and shared hosting. I am going to begin migrating everything to my slicehost slices and call it a day.

Goodbye bluehost, I would love to say it was all great but I can’t…