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by john_the_writer 1255 days ago
If you can avoid ON-premise do so. Unless you have full control. I've had a few rails apps go pear shape when the customer updates their ruby version. Then fixing the app is on me.

I spent weeks building an app, and I send it out in a nice package. 18 months later I get a call telling me it stopped working. I (being honourable) looked into the issue (free of charge). When I found out they'd updated their OS and Ruby version I bowed out. There's a line between building something and maintaining it for free for ever.