[koa]

I have two rails SaaS apps that generate increasingly fulltime income on heroku.

combined costs currently at $140/month each app has 1 free web dyno, 1 worker, starter postgres DB, ssl, plus a few extras

Looking at the new offerings like digital ocean, i'm really tempted to switch over, but a voice in my head keeps telling me it makes no sense as I don't really have strong linux-sysadmin type skills. Even getting rails to work on new macs takes me 1-2 painful days.

Anyone have an eta of what it might take someone with limited sysadmin skills to cut over to something like digital ocean from heroku?

[cpursley]

http://progrium.com/blog/2013/06/19/dokku-the-smallest-paas-...

https://medium.com/code-adventures/438bce155dcb

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https://flynn.io/

[SiliconAlley]

My progression has been PaaS -> AWS -> Digital Ocean -> Dedicated and I strongly feel that if you're going to make the leap from PaaS to VPS, it's not a whole lot harder to go dedicated and there you'll find much sweeter value. I'm currently on an OVH SP2 (Xeon + SSD + 32GB ram in a data center in Quebec so not terrible latency to where I am in the northeast US) that I pay $90/mo for (http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/sp2.xml) and it's just jaw-droppingly powerful. If you're going to go through the trouble of migrating your app anyway, it's worth taking a good look at dedicated offerings like that as well.

[harshreality]

OVH SP-series servers do not use ECC ram. This is unusual in the xeon server space. Even most VPS server providers use it.

[voltagex_]

Heh, I'm at the Digital Ocean stage of your flowchart, I just have to build something to fund that $90/month...

[Afforess]

Not long. I had zero sys-admin skills, but DO has a slew of community guides that step by step you through setting up pretty much every application you might need.

[voltagex_]

It's possible something like Vagrant may help, but there's still a learning curve.