[ukoki]

I'm surprised how many people here are snow-flaking their own web application servers instead of just using Heroku. Heroku is $25/dyno/month. At $100/hr for a dev a Heroku dyno costs 15minutes of dev time per month. If you spend just a day tinkering with your application server VMs or updating docker images running your Rails app every month — you could have bought 32 Heroku dynos instead.

[andrei_says_]

Well you usually need at least two-three dynos plus a database. This takes the price to $100-$125 / mo which is still a good savings over hiring a sysadmin.

But some services provide a good subset of heroku functionality on your own servers for a flat fee which is where I think the sweet spot is now.