One thing to note on the heroku free service. They will shutdown your dyno after 30 mins of inactivity and the next user to visit the site will have a lengthy load time since the dyno has to restart on the next request. If you do decide to go with heroku pay for the extra dyno and you won't have to worry about the idling. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling
On Apr 4, 2013, at 10:38 AM, John Merlino <stoici...@aol.com> wrote: > This guy is using godaddy shared hosting for his wordpress blog. I > think it's currently $5 a month. I was thinking to use Rails for his > next project. But I wouldn't want costs to exceed more than $20 per > month. I contacted heroku and they said that 1 dyno is free to host > your ruby on rails app and each additional dyno is $30 a month. A > single Heroku dyno provides 512mb ram and 1024mb swap. It has 4 > (virtual) CPU cores (Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz). 512mb ram doesn't > seem to be much, particularly for memory-intensive processing. > Although, the multiple CPU cores may enhance multi-threading. That > said, this really isn't going to be a memory hog. Now I was curious to > compare these specs with that of a shared hosting environment (where > many different customers share the same resources). For example, > godaddy says this about their shared hosting "Currently there is not a > ‘set number’ for CPU resources. Mostly because we have multiple > hardware platforms in the wild. Simply put, if your processes degrade > performance for other customers on the server(s) we will take actions > to protect the other customers." So that's not much of a comparison. > But does anyone have any experience on shared hosting (I know that > most shared hosting environments dont support ruby - but Im sure you > used it for other platfroms like asp.net/php) vs heroku, and if > someone is used to shared hosting with moderate traffic to their site, > would you notice a significant performance downgrade if the site is > moved to heroku on 1 dyno? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
