You might want to try AWS opsworks, it's free for a year with a small instance and if you spread your resources on to all AWS free tools you could handle a lot more than 200 users. You could also use some caching on a small elasticache to make it super snappy. Opsworks has a bit of a learning curve but it's not too bad if you got so far with rails. Make sure to start your instances in a zone around here to reduce latency.
Good luck! On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 5:51:52 PM UTC+10, Paul Walker wrote: > > I'm a fairly new Rails developer. I've been building an application on > Nitrous.IO. > > I've now gotten the application to the stage where I need to deploy it. > > All the tutorials and guides I've read and watched suggest Heroku. It's > obviously very popular. > > As I have an entirely Australian customer base (unlikely to change as it's > a niche product suited to the local market), I'd rather have my site hosted > in Australia for improved latency. > > Are there any similar options to Heroku that would suit a beginner like me > that are hosted in Australia? > > I'm using AWS for storage but I'm really not confident enough to set up my > own server and take care of administration, backups etc. > > As it's a niche product, it's resource requirements are not large. It's > unlikely to have more than 200 users in total with 20 or so online at any > given time. > > I'd really appreciate it anyone could offer me some direction on this. > > Cheers > Paul > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
