<div dir="ltr">AWS is an alternative to Digital Ocean. IMHO DigitalOcean has a better, clearer interface. but like what others mentioned; Heroku is a great start; as you don't have to deal with sysadmin stuff.<div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>Jimmy</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 September 2014 14:41, Alex Pounds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@alexpounds.com" target="_blank">alex@alexpounds.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:58:54PM +0100, gvim wrote:<br>
> I'm looking for a good quality cloud deal to host Rails apps with<br>
> low (or even free?) startup cost which I can offer to small<br>
> businesses. Any you can recommend? It needs to based in Europe to<br>
> avoid excessive latency.<br>
<br>
</span>If you're not afraid to be your own sysadmin, then DigitalOcean is a good<br>
choice. Their VPSes start at $5/month, and they have a number of EU-based<br>
data centres (including London).<br>
<br>
They also have some "one-click apps"[1], which are more like<br>
"pre-configured system images". There's one for Rails (though it's a bit<br>
pants - details on request), as well as Docker and Dokku[2] images. I've<br>
not tried Dokku, but if you want a self-hosted Heroku it would be an easy<br>
way to get started.<br>
<br>
They're also quite generous with vouchers. If you sign up from this link<br>
you should get $10 in free credit, which is enough to try them out for a<br>
month or so: <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=406c3e1201fa" target="_blank">https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=406c3e1201fa</a><br>
(And in the interests of full disclosure, if you go on to pay for it I get<br>
a credit to my account).<br>
<br>
<br>
[1]: <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/features/one-click-apps/" target="_blank">https://www.digitalocean.com/features/one-click-apps/</a><br>
[2]: <a href="https://github.com/progrium/dokku" target="_blank">https://github.com/progrium/dokku</a><br>
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