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Costs of running a production Rails app
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Monthly costs associated with a solid setup for a Rails app (based on minimal traffic).
* Linode 512 - $19.95
* Github account - $7
* Pingdom uptime monitoring - $9.95 ($0.50 to add 1 check to existing account.)
* New Relic performance monitoring - $24 (or on-demand if you want to do shorter tests)
* Amazon CloudFront - less than $5
Other service possibilities:
* Basecamp - project management and collaboration
* Scout - server health monitoring
* Sendgrid - email sending
* Hoptoad or Exceptional - tracks application errors
* Zerigo - managed DNS (GeoDNS if you have multiple geo-distributed app servers)
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