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Running costs for running a web app

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lotyrin wrote: post #116
mod wrote: post #75

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I haven't used AppEngine, but getting a heroku instance up takes less than an hour. If I did it more often, I'd think it could be done for a typical CRUD app in An instance on DigitalOcean would be more like 2 hours. There's no lockin that I've experienced on Heroku.

The case I've always experienced, which is " ; heroku create; git push heroku master" is a few seconds.

Setting up your requirements for heroku is not that simple. You have to create all the necessary information, like your requirements.txt etc. Turn on some level of real postgres, things of that nature.

Most of my time is spent consulting docs.

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somberi wrote: post #179
fareesh wrote: post #157

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They're much better at support than Google (which isn't saying much, but at least you have someone that answers).

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fareesh wrote: post #157

At our agency we tend to have a lot of low budget projects, plus we like to keep expenses low if there's a relatively small overhead in return. For saving on costs we use: - Bitbucket over Github (Private repos are free, although Github has more features, so it depends on how much you use really) - Email Hosting Zoho over Google (FREE): We tend to recommend Zoho to single entrepreneurs since it offers 10 accounts for…

gandi.net gives some email addresses with the domain you buy.

Re: Running costs for running a web app

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Post by lotyrin »

mod wrote: post #221
lotyrin wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The case I've always experienced, which is " ; heroku create; git push heroku master" is a few seconds.

Setting up your requirements for heroku is not that simple. You have to create all the necessary information, like your requirements.txt etc. Turn on some level of real postgres, things of that nature. Most of my time is spent consulting docs.

Nicer framework generators will produce dependency configuration, have params for what database backend to produce configuration for, and produce applications prepared to be 12-factor (log to stdout, accept configuration via environment) out of the box.

More generators than those will allow you to create reusable app templates which have these features so you don't have to repeat the (still very simple) configuration process for each app.

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rickyc091 wrote: post #49
destroytoday wrote: post #30

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At the time, I was eager to build the app and focus on its features and getting it online. I don't know much about renting hardware, setting up a system, and scaling, so I was gladly willing to pay to make that easier on myself. The $3400 lost actually bought me a lot more of my own time, which I consider more valuable in the long run. I'd be interested in reading a blog post about how you'd slash the cost, if you ev…

From the heroku costs, it looks like you are using one web dyno and 2 workers dyno. The database is on standard.0, which is the first base tier production level database they offer. There's no reason you couldn't host all these on one server on digital ocean. I don't really know what load your server is getting, but seeing as you only need one dyno, it's probably not much so one server should suffice. --- # Pros of s…

You also have to worry about failure of that server or that colo in the "rent a server" case.
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