I have had an account with hostingrails.com in the past. I believe their cheaper plan is like $10 a month and they have decent support. I am not sure I can get much cheaper than that really, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
I want to have a server so I can show some of my websites, but I haven't really much of a need for anything major at the moment or a site that gets much traffic. Is anyone familiar with some cheaper hosting plans ?
Heroku is free, and should do everything you need
What about the database ? How does amazon s3 fit into the picture ?
S3 for any file storage you need to do (uploads) and the database is already there -- PostgreSQL only -- so it's a migration away. The heroku gem makes the deploy process one-line-simple.
Walter
You don’t want to store your assets on heroku so you normally use Amazon S3 for that.
Database options:
Free tiny database on heroku
Free mongoid database on mongohq.com and probably mongolabs.com too
Probably other free databases available as well. Enough for small sites, and when you need a bit more you can get 256 MB at mongohq.com for $5 a month.
wrong link, and it is 240 mb now at https://mongolab.com/home/ I guess that’s what you can give with 3mil in the bank.
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