Robbie Straw wrote:
I have to agree w/ mono
In regards to your hosting argument, I just don't think this is a valid concern anymore! You can easily get Rails hosting for a decent price these days.
There are plenty of affordable shared host(s) as cheap as $5-$10/mo. -- Most of them provide shell access, and in my experience you can get support to spin up sidekiq, redis, etc. in place of your "static instances" by opening a ticket. (I've often seen billing done based on the number of static thin/mongrel/etc. instances you are allowed to run.)
An even better option would be a VPS with 1024-2048MiB RAM, and 20+GiB of disk space, which I know can be had for $10-$15/mo. (I'm happily running Discourse on a 1024MiB/40GiB "cloud server" that works out to $10/mo. Not the fastest box / connection in the world, but it's running two thin instances, redis, postgres, sidekiq [25 workers], and clockwork. -- Easily renders most pages in <200ms.)
Anyways: I got discourse up and running for $10/mo. -- And this is "hobby" / "side project" as far as my pocketbook is concerned. A small business can easily afford that [and more!] for their web presence.