I will look into Linode. Thanks Javier. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Javier Quarite <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > > -- Mohamed Wael Khobalatte -- 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.
