Take a look at Amazon EC2 esp. since they make considerations for those involved in education,
http://aws.amazon.com/education/ Even if you're not in education they have a free micro instance you can play with and might even be enough for you to at least get going, http://aws.amazon.com/free/ If your start-up idea might even win some money :-) http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/ Paul (who hosts also at Joyent, Rackspace and Bytemark (UK)) On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM, why-el <wael.khobala...@gmail.com> 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
