Hosting Options For Grails Applications
The following hosting providers support Grails applications. As hosting options often change the information is dated in order to help determine relevancy. All of the hosting services below has been confirmed to work fine with Grails by someone from the user forum, as of the added/update date. Still, check before signing up, if they allow Spring, Hibernate and third-party frameworks in general. Hosting services are divided into two categories:
Regular Shared and Dedicated JVM/Tomcat Hosting
Contegix
http://contegix.comAdded 28/06/2007
Contegix provides fully managed, dedicated servers under our Beyond Managed Hosting. Every server is backed by a 100% guaranteed network and infrastructure guarantee. Yet, the most unique and beneficial aspect is the engineering support.
Contegix has maintained an average response time of under 5 minutes for 4 consecutive years. This is not merely an automatic reply or a reply from a "ticket taker". This is a knowledgeable engineer dedicated to working on the customer's issues.
In addition, Contegix is the proud hosting sponsor of Codehaus and numerous other open source communities and non-profits.
EatJ
http://eatj.comUpdated 8/07/2007
eatj.com offers free java hosting that seems to work fine with Grails so far. The catch - they will kill the Tomcat server every 6 hours so you have to go and manually restart it but for development and personal hosting this is fine. They have also a $6.98 plan (500 MB space, 30 GB file transfer, private JVM) and other more advanced plans including a $69 dedicated server plan. Can deploy war files.
The jdbc url to the MySQL database should be set to jdbc:mysql://localhost/#id#?autoReconnect=true where #id# is your eatj logon id. Set the userid and password to your eatj logon ID and password and you are set.
KGB Internet
http://www.kgbinternet.comAdded 10/17/2007
The entry below is a little old, so I wanted to post an update.
KGBInternet.com is still active. Their shared Tomcat plan is only $10/month, and a dedicated JVM is $20/month. I was able to deploy a grails generated WAR by exploding it into the public_html folder that is provided. Worked fine the first time.
Added 4/11/2006
Quite simply, a developers playground with great support. It is rare to find a provider that answers the actual questions asked, let alone answers promptly and personally. Keith knows his servers and setup, and so answers questions directly himself. No bouncing of your query between different tiers of support required.
Besides the expected features (Tomcat, database, etc), KGBInternet had no problems with me running Grails in dev mode on their server. Very useful when interacting with 3rd party servers that cannot reach my laptop! And very useful to rebuild a deployed app when a little bug is fixed, avoiding uploading a 11meg war for a tiny fix. The only thing you need to know: the server port (found in server.xml), and the fact restart of the server will restart Tomcat automatically. Anything else, just ask Keith.
Daily Razor
http://www.dailyRazor.comAdded 08/08/2007
Looks promising: $10.95 for a shared JVM/Tomcat and $22.95 ($17.95 if paying annually) for private JVM/Tomcat with 96MB memory. You can deploy via war files but only on private Tomcat.
Kattare
http://www.Kattare.comAdded 08/08/2007
Private JVM for $30/mo. This gives you 128MB. For $50, you get 256MB. Setup fee $15-20.
eRoute
http://www.eRoute.netAdded 08/08/2007
Looks OK. Plans are $16.99 for a shared and $26.99 for dedicated JVM. Although, they give only 64MB memory (either plan). Accept war file.
4Java.ca
http://www.4Java.caAdded 5/01/2008
I tried their service and Grails worked like a charm.
Private Tomcat - $19.95/64MB
Premium Tomcat - $45.95/160MB
Private JBoss - $69.95/160MB
Plesk CP included.
HostJava
http://www.hostjava.netAdded 5/09/2008
Private Tomcat/Jetty/JBoss plans start at $14.99/monthly (additonal 32MB Heap Size - $5/monthly).
OpenVZ virtualization
3 plans - from $19.97 to $79.97 per month
Virtual Private Server Hosting
In general, these services are less expensive. They usually let you install software and manage it, which may be more work, but for sure it gives you more control.
A2 Hosting
http://www.a2hosting.comDeveloper friendly VPS plans that are Grail compliant. Choose Xen or OpenVZ virtualization platforms from just $14.95/month.
Added 6/9/09
RimUHosting
http://www.RimUHosting.comAdded 8/07/2007
You manage yourself your server, well virtual server. But they help you to install software, if you want it. Prices (per mo.): $20 for 96MB, $25 for 128MB and up. Ahh, $10 setup fee.
Zone.Net
http://www.zone.netAdded 08/08/2007
Virtual Private Servers for $25 with 256MB. But they leave you with managing it. Currently, no swap memory support, which they say is not a problem for Tomcat, but may be an issue for JBoss.
EAPPS
http://www.eapps.comAdded 08/08/2007
Plans start at $20/mo (gives you a 256MB server). Looks good.
SliceHost
http://www.SliceHost.comAdded 08/08/2007
Gives a good choice of VPS plans:
256 slice 256MB 10GB 100GB $20
512 slice 512MB 20GB 200GB $38
1024 slice 1024MB 40GB 400GB $70
2048 slice 2048MB 80GB 800GB $140
They have a very active user forum (+1).
VPSLink
http://www.vpslink.comAdded 1/10/2008
6 plans ranging from $7.95 to $129.95 per month (discounts for paying 3, 6 , or 12 months)
Choice of OpenVZ or Xen virtualization
Disk Space: 2.5 GB to 80 GB
Bandwidth: 100 GB to 2000 GB
Dedicated RAM: 64 MB to 2048 MB (see note below)
Dedicated IP(s) 1 to 10
Note: they advertise "dedicated RAM" but in fact this is the amount of virtual memory that they offer on OpenVZ. The memory limit is a hard limit on OpenVZ.
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