Re: [Rails] Server advice for RoR for newbies

On 9 March 2013 13:02, <m.bissette@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am fairly new to Ruby and deployment. Have started creating a some apps
> and going through tutorials, etc. I am thinking about buying my own server
> like a HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 Server to host and deploy my own web app
> which is a project management database where externals and internals can
> track projects and upload or download files with invoicing functionality.
> Max users would be no more than 100.
>
> Would the HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 Server be ok? Or can I even get away with
> something that is less powerful?

Why not just do it on Heroku or a similar system? Then all the
difficult stuff is done for you.

If you want to do your own and it is to be a public site then unless
you know a lot about the security issues of setting up a server then
you should be very concerend. It is not something to be taken
lightly.

Further again, if you decide to go ahead, when you say no more than
100 users, it is not the number of users that is significant but how
many are expected to be concurrently making requests on the system.
If you are expecting less than one request per second then you could
likely do it with a Raspberry Pi or similar.

Colin

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