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Rails + heroku is pretty much instant. If you want to pay a little little less a single vps instance can run the web app and the postgres server at the same tim
by jacobsenscott 8y ago
Rails + heroku is pretty much instant. If you want to pay a little little less a single vps instance can run the web app and the postgres server at the same time.
- dorfsmay 8y agoWith a single VPS, you're missing the DB backup that is probably the most important piece if the puzzle provided by heroku.
- bufferoverflow 8y agoDepends on the DB size. For small side projects I do weekly SQL dumps, 7-zip them, and email as attachments to my GMail, where they get automatically tagged and marked as read.
- nmca 8y agoThis guy hacks.
- balfirevic 8y agoDon't want to be too off-topic, but I do wonder how that jibes with GDPR. I guess if they are encrypted it should be fine.
- alfredallan1 8y agoConsider using one of the command line tools to upload directly to your google drive. Have a script to do the zipping and calling the gdrive app on the zipped file, and run that as a cron job.
- dorfsmay 8y agoWhichever process you use is fine, but I wanted to highlight that there is more to heroku than just deploying your apps.
- jacobsenscott 8y agoYes, heroku's hosted postgres is fantastic. Once you have users you should use that, or aws rds, or learn how to do it properly yourself. Until then a cron job to backup your db every week, or day or every 12 hours or whatever is good enough.