Mike, I run marketing for www.engineyard.com -- which has a rails hosting offering that provides deployment and management, back-ended by Amazon Web Services.
-> Backups are automated for you via snapshots of Amazon EBS volumes -> bandwidth is charged on a sliding scale starting at $0.17 per GB transfer (http://www.engineyard.com/products/cloud/pricing1) -> RAM - starts at $.11 per hour for a 1.7GB small instance (with 1vCPU) -> Located in Virginia -> You can add RAM by upgrading instance sizes or adding more instances -- the first takes two button pushes, the second takes 1. You can play with our pricing estimator to get more idea [http:// www.engineyard.com/products/cloud/pricing/price-estimator]. There's a whole bunch of other features like automated database replicas, automated security patching, application cloning etc. as you grow. And when you get serious, you can add support offerings which give you 24x7 coverage. They'd probably want to use S3 for storing the photos. Let me know at mmullany [ at ] engineyard.com if you'd like more detail. -- michael On Jan 28, 12:15 pm, Mike <mrh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for suggestions for hosting for a site we're developing > in RoR (working with developer): > > The site allows photographers to upload galleries, so we want to make > sure we have proper memory and bandwidth. Traffic will be pretty light > at first (visitors can search through these galleries). We're pretty > convinced we need dedicated/VPS as opposed to shared hosting. > > Important criteria are: > > 1) backups > 2) bandwidth > 3) RAM > 4) Located in US > 5) easy to change/scale as we grow (like add more RAM, etc) > > We are working with a web dev so we also need it to be easy for him to > deploy the code on the server. > > We've been looking at: > > http://www.hostgator.com/vps-hosting/http://www.linode.com/http://webbynode.com/ > > Anyone familiar with these guys? Other recs? > > Thanks - I appreciate the help! > > -Mike -- 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-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
