[Noisebridge-announce] Rails class 6/21: Migrating from Heroku to a generic VPS

[Gabe Kopley]

Hi, Noisebridge! We added a new class at  7pm Pacific on June 21, 2016

Migrating from Heroku to a generic VPS

The time has come; our school website has outgrown Heroku's free tier. Let use this as a teaching opportunity.

Our Postgres database is nearing the 10,000 row limit for Heroku's free tier. The next step up is $9/month. Meanwhile, a 1GB VPS from a reputable vendor is only $10/month, and with a VPS we can get free real SSL from [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) (currently our traffic is proxied through Cloudflare in order to have free SSL).

So I propose we migrate our website from Heroku to a simple [Passenger](https://www.phusionpassenger.com/) and [Capistrano](http://capistranorb.com/) setup.

Does anyone have a VPS we can use? If not we'll use my personal 1GB Linode.

Let's perform the migration together at Noisebridge during the period of this lesson.

RSVP here: http://www.railsschool.org/l/goodbye-heroku
May The Force Be With You!

Best regards,
Rails School, http://www.railsschool.org

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