Hobo Deployment on Cloud App platform vs VPS

[tonym]

Would be great to get a collective experience of Cloud servers and VPS.

Is the hassle vs flexibility vs price of a VPS any advantage over something like Heroku?

What is your experience of Heroku, dotCloud, Engine Yard etc.?

In practice, how much do those services cost for a medium app/medium traffic (30,000 hits p/m?)

I know it's not as simple as that, but some comparison of average costs in practice would be useful to many of us.  It may be cheaper in practice for many apps.

Cheers, Anthony.

[kevinpfromnm]

Can only comment on heroku.

It really depends on how many instances you need to run to handle those requests.  Heroku figure 35$ x (number of instances - 1).

Nice thing about heroku is you can pretty much just crank up the web dynos if you get popular (or get slashdotted).  Also there's a ton of people writing addons to take the hassle out of common things like running a solr server, email, memcache, redis, etc.

Whether these things are worth the added cost is probably more dependent on how big your team is/how willing you are to roll your own.  Given most of my projects have been 1-2 person affairs with no other IT people, so I tend to stick with heroku.  You always have the option of moving away and implementing yourself if it becomes too expensive.

[Ignacio Huerta]

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I can only speak about Gandi.net, we started with them a few years ago
and we've been so happy that we haven't looked at any alternative.

I don't have request numbers, but with 512MB of RAM and one CPU core
you can handle three Rails instances confortably. Price is about
12?/month.

Regards,
Ignacio

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