[LRUG] Rails in the wonderful, wonderful Cloud

Pratik pratiknaik at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 04:26:52 PDT 2009


I'm paying 200$/month for a box with 8 GB RAM/250 GB Disk/Quad Core
Xeon 3220 @ SoftLayer via a reseller. Forget on demand scaling, you
ain't gonna need it.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Glenn @ Ruby Pond Ltd
<glenn at rubypond.com> wrote:
>> Are you looking for Rails-focussed virtualisation or general ones or big
>> ones or cheap ones?
>>
>> For 250GBP/month you could probably get a pair of dedicated servers of a
>> reasonable spec.
>
> I assembled a HP Proliant DL320, 4GB RAM, 1x3ghz (spot for another
> proc should I need it), 4TB of disk for about £800 (ex VAT).
> Co-located in a server room for around £60/month. Doesn't take long to
> re-coup the hardware costs once you start getting up into that price
> range for hosting.
>
> Glenn
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- Pratik
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