As I consider trying NoSQL and some other bleeding-edge tools I’ve come to realize that very few people will let you host these new technologies in the traditional shared-hosting sense. I’ve found some ways around these restrictions but I continue to keep my out for something out of the ordinary or new that I could try out.

FluxFlex seems to fit this out-of-the-ordinary bill I had. This host, which is mind blowingly cheap at the moment, is pre-setup to allow simple publishing using Git. For example, you have a local repository of your web application for some personal development. All you have to do is push to correct branch on github and voila! it will be sync’d on to the live site. It’s cool that that comes out of the box, but I can do that by myself right? Simple Git hooking will accomplish pretty much the same thing on our own server setup.

The really cool part is that they allow you to host MongoDB (it seems that way, don’t quote me on that), node.js applications, RoR applications - you can host almost anything. It’s a big deal because things like node and Mongo don’t jive well with a lot of standard shared hosts these days. Node is especially cool because its an entire process that runs persistently.

I should back up and remind people that there are some very cool, cheap (or better) node.js hosts out there, but I like this because it gives you so many options and at such a reasonable price.

~Phenow