Yes, I know there are lot of hosting provider which offers free hosting for website
Like

  • http://www.freehostia.com/free-chocolate.html
  • http://byethost.com/index.php/free-hosting
  • http://www.000webhost.com/

But those do not provide scaling or may not be able to run Ruby on Rails

Well, I came across a new service called “AppFog” which is very Nice and has flexibility to Scale.
AppFor :The Public Cloud PaaS Developers Love
http://www.appfog.com/

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To Signup You may have to answer

In order to set up a new account, we have short questionnaire for you to answer first (this helps us with account creation). Please answer the following:

1. Please type out the email address you wish to use for the account here –>
2. Please tell us what Code Languages you plan to use for your application(s):
3. Please tell us the purpose of the application(s):

Once you have access to dashboard, you can create a new Application

AppFog_ Create An App - console_appfog_com_apps_new

 

You application should be ready in few seconds

AppFog - Your Account - console_appfog_com

Your application.

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You may change RAM allocated to your application or Number of Instances.

App Details_ rajchat - console_appfog_com_apps_rajchat

 

Now, you would like to customize the code or use your own application, unfortunately there is no FTP access, but does have APIs.

Initially I thought, it would a new learning curve, but no, the API are just to Push/Download/Restart the application.

App Details_ rajchat - console_appfog_com_apps_rajchat_Code