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Engine Yard hosting was free. I don't think it was about cutting costs necessarily, but rather it was for improving the performance of the site and opening oppo
by cmelbye 17y ago
Engine Yard hosting was free. I don't think it was about cutting costs necessarily, but rather it was for improving the performance of the site and opening opportunities for scaling rapidly in the future.
- simonk 17y agoEY told them if they wanted to continue to start paying and they said it was a different by a huge amount.
- tumult 17y agoIt's not that simple. EY's filesystem stuff is designed for read-almost-always, as you would expect for most Rails sites. GitHub does a lot of writing. Growing GitHub's setup would have been a huge undertaking for EY (from what I've read of their posts) and you just can't do that stuff for free, or you run out of money. (This is just what I've gleaned from comments. They parted ways amicably. Don't stir up drama.)
- simonk 17y agoYes, but you can't say if they stayed at EY it would be free.
- tjogin 17y agoIt would also have been free to run Github off of an old server out of their garage. Just not very functional.