Rails - Jul 2013 - What would be a good hosting plan for hosting several Rails projects?

I come from the ASP.NET world where I used to get a shared hosting plan
at a host and simply deployed various projects to different folders via
FTP, assigning various domain names to each folder. Easy, unlimited
different apps. Costs me about $150/year.

Now, I''m having about 20 Rails apps ready to be deployed (all of them
with a database), none of which
will generate any kind of money but each being hit about 20k times per
day. What would you recommend as a hosting solution that won''t kill my
budget as well as allow the flexibility I''m used to?

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On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:35 AM, Nico S. wrote:
> I come from the ASP.NET world where I used to get a shared hosting plan
> at a host and simply deployed various projects to different folders via
> FTP, assigning various domain names to each folder. Easy, unlimited
> different apps. Costs me about $150/year.
> 
> Now, I''m having about 20 Rails apps ready to be deployed (all of
them
> with a database), none of which
> will generate any kind of money but each being hit about 20k times per
> day. What would you recommend as a hosting solution that won''t
kill my
> budget as well as allow the flexibility I''m used to?
You could use DigitalOcean: $5/month for an SSD-backed VPS. If you use this
referral link, I will get a small kickback, but you should use them anyway.
https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=c671150a6a25

Walter

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On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Walter Lee Davis
<waltd-HQgmohHLjDZWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:35 AM, Nico S. wrote:
> 
>> I come from the ASP.NET world where I used to get a shared hosting plan
>> at a host and simply deployed various projects to different folders via
>> FTP, assigning various domain names to each folder. Easy, unlimited
>> different apps. Costs me about $150/year.
>> 
>> Now, I''m having about 20 Rails apps ready to be deployed (all
of them
>> with a database), none of which
>> will generate any kind of money but each being hit about 20k times per
>> day. What would you recommend as a hosting solution that won''t
kill my
>> budget as well as allow the flexibility I''m used to?
> 
> You could use DigitalOcean: $5/month for an SSD-backed VPS. If you use this
referral link, I will get a small kickback, but you should use them anyway.
https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=c671150a6a25
> 
> Walter
> 
20 Rails apps might just run out the RAM on that $5/mo offering. But DO
doesn''t seem like a bad solution for the budget-minded. Heroku gets
expensive fast, as do others. I have a Gandi VPS that is running about $40/mo
(way more that $150/yr) that can support quite a few apps, but nothing that gets
/.-ed or @neilhimself-d. (Happened. Boom.) DO''s up-teir plans are still
pretty cheap.



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I think the best solution should be take have a machine on Rackspace that
will cost around 100$/month, on which you can deploy any number of
application you want without extra cost.


Thanks & Regards
Ankit Varshney
+91-9899314144


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Tamara Temple
<tamouse.lists-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Walter Lee Davis
<waltd-HQgmohHLjDZWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:35 AM, Nico S. wrote:
> >
> >> I come from the ASP.NET world where I used to get a shared hosting
plan
> >> at a host and simply deployed various projects to different
folders via
> >> FTP, assigning various domain names to each folder. Easy,
unlimited
> >> different apps. Costs me about $150/year.
> >>
> >> Now, I''m having about 20 Rails apps ready to be deployed
(all of them
> >> with a database), none of which
> >> will generate any kind of money but each being hit about 20k times
per
> >> day. What would you recommend as a hosting solution that
won''t kill my
> >> budget as well as allow the flexibility I''m used to?
> >
> > You could use DigitalOcean: $5/month for an SSD-backed VPS. If you use
> this referral link, I will get a small kickback, but you should use them
> anyway. https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=c671150a6a25
> >
> > Walter
> >
>
> 20 Rails apps might just run out the RAM on that $5/mo offering. But DO
> doesn''t seem like a bad solution for the budget-minded. Heroku
gets
> expensive fast, as do others. I have a Gandi VPS that is running about
> $40/mo (way more that $150/yr) that can support quite a few apps, but
> nothing that gets /.-ed or @neilhimself-d. (Happened. Boom.) DO''s
up-teir
> plans are still pretty cheap.
>
>
>
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Ankit Varshney
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> I think the best solution should be take have a machine on Rackspace that
> will cost around 100$/month, on which you can deploy any number of
> application you want without extra cost.
Might be cheaper and better to simply host on simple machines at
DigitalOcean or AWS, both of which have tiny little machines that
range anywhere between $5 and $15 a month and are perfect sizes for
single applications.  But I''ve always held the though that unless
there is isolation hosting multiple apps on the same server just isn''t
worth the trouble.

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On Thursday, July 18, 2013 5:35:30 PM UTC+10, Ruby-Forum.com User
wrote:
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> I come from the ASP.NET world where I used to get a shared hosting plan 
> at a host and simply deployed various projects to different folders via 
> FTP, assigning various domain names to each folder. Easy, unlimited 
> different apps. Costs me about $150/year. 
>
> Now, I''m having about 20 Rails apps ready to be deployed (all of
them
> with a database), none of which 
> will generate any kind of money but each being hit about 20k times per 
> day. What would you recommend as a hosting solution that won''t
kill my
> budget as well as allow the flexibility I''m used to? 
>
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Go to a host that allows you to scale your VMs up. Start with a very small 
server (as many people have said) and then use something like the NewRelic 
Free account to monitor your resources usage and you can then scale it up 
to the level you need. 

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What would you classify as killing your budget? You will probably need to 
give more background information, such as how large are the DB''s
(<100MB?,
1GB? 10GB?) and how processor intensive each app is (are you doing any 
background image re sizing using imagemagick?). Do you need all the apps to 
be running off of one dedicated box, one VPS, or does it not matter?

As others have said, heroku gets expensive fast, but they are reliable. You 
can get rather cheap VPS''s from various places such as digitalocean or
OVH,
heck, you can even get a lame dedicated server from OVH now for a measly 
five bucks a month. Amazon allows you to get a micro instance for free for 
a year if you are a new customer, so you can try that out as a starting 
point if you are interested in using amazon. You can also rent instances 
from amazon on an hourly rate, so if you want you can rent their highest 
level instance as a spot instance for less than thirty cents an hour, 
giving you an idea of how much ram and storage you need.

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