Re: [Rails] Hosting costs for a small up!

2012-11-10 Thread Mohamed Wael Khobalatte
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

[Rails] Hosting costs for a small up!

2012-11-09 Thread why-el
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

Re: [Rails] Hosting costs for a small up!

2012-11-09 Thread Javier Quarite
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

Re: [Rails] Hosting costs for a small up!

2012-11-09 Thread Mohamed Wael Khobalatte
I will look into Linode. Thanks Javier. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Javier Quarite jquari...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Rails] Hosting costs for a small up!

2012-11-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
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/