But it's cool that they're getting the money... they'll be able to improve a lot of things for the community. Merb just might get a boost and EY now employs (at least) 4 Rubinius developers. That means that Rubinius might finally become a real alternative to MRI. Excellent!
- 100% utilization of 1 CPU core
- 4 Rails app servers (ie, Mongrels)
- 640 MB RAM
- Up to 250 GB/month bandwidth
- Up to 45 GB storage
- Up to 15 email accounts
- Additional RAM: $0.25/MB/month
- Additional bandwidth: $1/GB/month
- Additional storage: $1/GB/month
Quick, back of the envelope calculations suggest that I'd be paying 10x more, give or take 10%, than my current hosting costs. I max a dedicated server with both CPU and bandwidth - your mileage may vary (especially if the application isn't bandwidth intensive).
If you do, that's great, I very much respect people who stand by their products. If you think I'm being unfair, call me on it. But please don't post anonymously. That's dishonest and disrespectful.
If you don't, false alarm. :)
My name is Ezra and my blog is http://brainspl.at if you have any interest in what I work on.
The most exciting thing about what we are doing wasn't really covered in this article. The real news is about our Rubinius(http://rubini.us) and Merb(http://merbivore.com) projects. We are trying to improve Ruby as a platform for everyone.
I didn't realise that Rubinius and Merb were Engine Yard projects. That's awesome. A lot of people have been bitching about stability and scalability with Rails, kudos for stepping up and actually doing something about it.