Hi, I was going to suggest heroku (the free service) so you can test how it handles all the students, but seems you want more than that. Maybe linode? Where I work, we been using it for almost a year. We've started with linode 512 and now we are using 1024. Despite 2 interrumptions we had during this time, everything work great. Another option could be Webfaction.
http://www.linode.com/ http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting Javier On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:57 PM, why-el <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey friends! > > I am in the process of drafting a funding proposal to submit to my > university and I have no idea what costs I should include for my Rails app. > My application will open to my university's students. We are about 1600 > students, so the app will handle few requests. The stack is a pretty > standard one: Rails and Postgres, with probably some in-memory processing > later on. I do however want to expand the application to few other schools > so I expect the potential user base to grow. Still, I probably won't have > over 1000+ or so users at best in the first year, which is what funding is > for. > > How much do you think the costs will be? I tried Heroku but to be honest I > am still confused by their choice of terminology and I also read that their > costs go up fairly quickly. How about a virtual server somewhere? How > viable is that solution for someone never managed a virtual server? > > Best, > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/Cj7suH_pmjoJ. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
