[Rails] heruko performance vs shared hosting performance

2013-04-04 Thread John Merlino
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

[Rails] heruko performance vs shared hosting performance

2013-04-04 Thread John Merlino
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

Re: [Rails] heruko performance vs shared hosting performance

2013-04-04 Thread Matthew Witek
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

Re: [Rails] heruko performance vs shared hosting performance

2013-04-04 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:38 AM, John Merlino stoici...@aol.com wrote: would you notice a significant performance downgrade if the site is moved to heroku on 1 dyno? Given that the heroku entry tier is free and super easy to set up, why not just deploy an existing app you're familiar with and