Heroku alternatives

rubyonrails-talk
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I have finally successfully deployed simple apps on Heroku in following the tutorial at Ruby on Rails Tutorial | Learn Enough to Be Dangerous .

Are there other free sites like Heroku? I want to deploy on other sites as well, so that I caern see what the differences are from one site to another.

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Hi!

I’m not sure, but I guess EngineYard is one of the competitors:

http://www.engineyard.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku → See section “Competitors” for others alternatives.

Best Regards,

Everaldo

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you should chek www.dotcloud.com , I used that with a python framework (web2py) an I saw that it also support rails

but I haven’t used it yet. I used heroku for rails and it is fine

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I can also suggest Cloud 66 (www.cloud66.com) which is an application management as a service. It configures, deploys and manages your web applications and mobile backends on any cloud or your own servers without the need to for any download or sysop.

Disclaimer: I work for Cloud 66

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Another alternative worth looking at is Shelly Cloud: https://shellycloud.com Deployment is done via git like in Heroku, but it differs in that you get whole virtual servers that you can utilize in different ways: for application servers, delayed_job workers, databases, etc. It comes with free credit, so you can play with it for about a month (depending on usage) without paying anything.

Cheers, Michal