what sharetribe.com runs<\/a>, so there’s less possibility of future incompatibilities. But I understand if you want to do all your own devops stuff (scaling, upgrading the server, backing up the db, etc) to save some bucks.<\/p>\nAnyway, on production, you’ll want to run a 2X dyno for the web dyno, and a 1X dyno for the css_compile and worker dynos. I run 1 2X dyno for the web, and a 1x dyno for the worker tasks. That means about $75\/month, plus maybe $5\/month for heroku run bash<\/code> and css compiles. You can obviously scale up the web dynos as you need to.<\/p>\nAnd here are the addons I’ve found useful:<\/p>\n
\n- Cleardb for mysql, ‘drift’ level (make sure to be careful about your total db connections–each passenger process uses 5 and ‘drift’ only has 30. $49.99<\/li>\n
- flying sphinx for searches, ‘wooden’, $12. We have few enough listings that I’m not worried about deltas yet. $12<\/li>\n
- memcachier for caching. Been able to stay at the developer level for now, which is free.<\/li>\n
- new relic for monitoring and performance reporting. Been able to stay at the ‘wayne’ level for now, which is free.<\/li>\n
- papertrail for logfile review and alerting. Very valuable! Haven’t needed more than 2 days of logs, so am at the ‘choklad’ level, free.<\/li>\n
- heroku scheduler, which is essentially cron. Free.<\/li>\n
- sendgrid for emails, which lets us send 12k emails for free.<\/li>\n
- SSL addon, which lets us serve up the app under SSL with a custom domain name. $20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So, add these all up and you are looking at a running cost of $75+$5+$50+$12+$20 == $162 for a base level heroku install of Sharetribe (plus the SSL certificate, which is another $20, but is a yearly expense). It’s worth remembering that these will increase as you have more traffic and success.<\/p>\n
Note, this is for production only. You probably want a staging server. I’ve been able to get by with free dynos for staging, though if you want to support\/test full text searches or have a DB with more than 5MB of data in it, you’ll need to pay *something* for staging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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