On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 13:50 +1000, Roger wrote: > I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power > web server for my home office. > Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 > applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day > possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of > the time we expect 20-40 per day. > It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am. > > It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer > Fedora. > I have a TG782t modem. > > Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems > than enough. > Shared servers won't host Rails. > VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements > High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall > everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks > Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. > Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no > knowledge on that. > > What would you recommend please. ---- Heroku free for your purposes and fully supports RoR PostgreSQL is in my opinion, much more reliable than MySQL/MariaDB. In essence, RoR abstracts the database functionality so you could relatively easily swap between different database servers or even do development on MySQL and deployment on Postgres. Pictures should not be in the database in any event. You might want to check into something like Amazon S3 for storing pictures. Craig

On 2013-06-17 21:50, Roger wrote: > I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low > power web server for my home office. > Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails > 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day > possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most > of the time we expect 20-40 per day. > It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am. : Hi, I can host your web application. I have several machines at my disposal and a public IP's. You would have to point your domain to one of my ip addresses and start from there. I can host either Centos or Debian and tailor the server to the other software you need. Let me know if you are interested. I run my network for work purposes and testing. Mostly it is under utilized and I would like to get some web hosting or applications running on it. I do not charge for my services. I only ask that you not run anything illegal and if you get too big or there is too much traffic you will have to find another hosting company. Thanks, Ramon

I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am. It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer Fedora. I have a TG782t modem. Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems than enough. Shared servers won't host Rails. VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no knowledge on that. What would you recommend please.

I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am. It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer Fedora. I have a TG782t modem. Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems than enough. Shared servers won't host Rails. VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no knowledge on that. What would you recommend please. Help greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Roger