Ask HN: How do you host your Rails Application?

by sathishmanohar on 8/29/2011, 4:24 AM with 1 comments

I've just learned rails a month back, I'm building some small apps, I'm trying to host it. Heroku seems easy to host, but it seems costly (remember costly is subjective) down the road.

I researched a bit, and found may be using Heroku with Amazon RDS might reduce costs. I also think since these are new applications, why not host it on a dedicated server, until scaling issues shows up.

I was wondering how you rails devs, host your application? Also, which method is cost effective?

Thanks.

  • by dchamberlin on 8/29/2011, 4:57 PM

    I use Heroku while building out or testing applications - the first dyno is free and additional are $36/month. You can handle a decent amount of traffic on 2-3 dynos. To keep dyno time down, set up workers to run only when needed.

    It would be a good idea to plan ahead for your db needs - AWS is a good solution. Try to run you RDS in the same zone as Heroku.

  • by techn_in on 8/29/2011, 7:23 AM

    heroku and engineyard seem to be pretty standard in terms of managed solutions, haven't really heard of much else used honestly.