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Posted by Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points

Cost of Rails hosting

Until now I have built all of my projects on the LAMP stack and have had numerous dedicated and cloud servers to support these projects. I have a solid grasp on the costs associated with these server environments for projects of various sizes. I am now at the point where I want to move to using a framework to develop new work and I'm trying to decide whether to go with Rails or a PHP framework, however I don't really understand how the rails hosting works and how much it costs. For those experienced with rails hosting, what are some average costs involved?

2 Answers

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

This Stack Overflow post might give you some good insight:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2339324/selecting-a-rails-host

Naomi Freeman
STAFF
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Naomi Freeman
Naomi Freeman
Treehouse Guest Teacher

In addition to that, there's now Dokku http://progrium.com/blog/2013/06/19/dokku-the-smallest-paas-implementation-youve-ever-seen/

I heard about it at a meet-up. It was suggested we set that up with Digital Ocean. Not sure if it would meet your needs.

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

This looks pretty sweet. Is it basically like a self-hosted version of Heroku?