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> I set up 3 instances (two production and one staging) and thought I was a boss. [..] Lesson learned: don't use anything but Heroku until you have to. Did he
by sandis 15y ago
> I set up 3 instances (two production and one staging) and thought I was a boss. [..] Lesson learned: don't use anything but Heroku until you have to.
Did he really need 3 instances? Or even a separate staging environment?
- dshipper 15y agoThanks for the comment! Obviously 3 instances were too much. But the point remains that if you're running a low traffic Rails app it's a lot cheaper (free) to host on Heroku than it is on EC2. And if you're running at the scale that DomainPolish was that makes all the difference in terms of take home profit.
- nfriedly 15y agoBut, OTOH, you learned how to use EC2 while still making a profit. So not entirely bad.
- dshipper 15y agoTrue. Pretty expensive tutorial at $1,000 though ;)
- wesleyzhao 15y agoWelll.. :) Actually, low traffic EC2 instances are also free (albeit probably harder to set up): http://aws.amazon.com/free/ http://aws.amazon.com/free/
- Ecio78 15y agofree for a year
- ovi256 15y agoI was looking at Heroku as well for hosting some MVPs and I was wondering how good they are for hosting Python. Any ideas ? Naively, I'd hope they're as good as hosting Rails.
- dshipper 15y agoI wish I could help you but I've only ever used them for Rails. I have used GAE for Python and had a pretty good experience. I think that's also free at the beginning.
- ovi256 15y agoI was wondering about GAE as well. After the pricing change, it looked like it got horribly expensive. Any comments on how a side-project would do on the free plan ?
- hboon 15y agoI've been using it for Python with Bottle. Been pretty good so far. Anything specific you were looking for?
- ovi256 15y agoJust wandering how far you can go on the free plan with Python vs Rails. Looking for that for side projects.
- hboon 15y agoWeb frontend-wise, there isn't much difference, so it depends on your framework. But I can't find a Python equivalent of HireFire or the likes to keep worker dynos count down. I haven't gotten around to write one yet.
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- sdotsen 15y agoA couple of Linode instances would've been way cheaper IMO.