Can I host a rails app from a home server?

[saramic]

With the advent of cloud and the availability of PaaS (Platform as a Service) providers like Heroku, Fly.io, Render, and Hatchbox, why would even consider running a rails app on bare metal from home?

• because you can?
• because it's cheaper?
• because you want to be your own sysadmin/devops?
• because you want the internet to be back like it was in 1999 🎉 !!!

• because there has been some recent noise on this in the Rails community RECLAIM THE STACK!

  We spent 7 months building a Kubernetes based platform to replace Heroku. The results were a 90% reduction in costs and a 30% improvement in performance.

  KAMAL formerly MRSK

  Leaving the cloud will save us $7 million over five years. https://basecamp.com/cloud-exit

• because @friendlyantz - wants to know Ruby Australia Slack #melb-meets 3:27pm Oct 5 2023

  Keen to hear about these topics(hope it inspires someone):

  • Self hosting ruby app

So "can I host a rails app from a home server?" whats involved? how hard can it be? is it just RAILS_ENV=production bin/rails server?

let's see how far I can get - maybe a 5 minute talk or maybe 30 minutes depending how far I get

NOTE: this is part of a larger talk idea for running a rails app locally on bare metal using a laptop, moving it into the cloud☁️ and back again on-premise on bare metal home cluster

[simran-sawhney]

Thanks for the great talk @saramic !