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From: why-el <wael.khobala...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Hosting costs for a small up!
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Hey friends! 

I am in the process of drafting a funding proposal to submit to my 
university and I have no idea what costs I should include for my Rails app. 
My application will open to my university's students. We are about 1600 
students, so the app will handle few requests. The stack is a pretty 
standard one: Rails and Postgres, with probably some in-memory processing 
later on. I do however want to expand the application to few other schools 
so I expect the potential user base to grow. Still, I probably won't have 
over 1000+ or so users at best in the first year, which is what funding is 
for. 

How much do you think the costs will be? I tried Heroku but to be honest I 
am still confused by their choice of terminology and I also read that their 
costs go up fairly quickly. How about a virtual server somewhere? How 
viable is that solution for someone never managed a virtual server? 

Best, 



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Hey friends!&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>I am in the process of drafting a fun=
ding proposal to submit to my university and I have no idea what costs I sh=
ould include for my Rails app. My application will open to my university's =
students. We are about 1600 students, so the app will handle few requests. =
The stack is a pretty standard one: Rails and Postgres, with probably some =
in-memory processing later on. I do however want to expand the application =
to few other schools so I expect the potential user base to grow. Still, I =
probably won't have over 1000+ or so users at best in the first year, which=
 is what funding is for.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>How much do you thi=
nk the costs will be? I tried Heroku but to be honest I am still confused b=
y their choice of terminology and I also read that their costs go up fairly=
 quickly. How about a virtual server somewhere? How viable is that solution=
 for someone never managed a virtual server?&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div=
>Best,&nbsp;<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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