Thank you so much Paul. These are awesome resources. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Paul Makepeace <pa...@paulm.com> wrote:
> 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. > > > -- 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 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.
