Page Comparison

Web workers
Production:

• Low-end, 2 standard-2x dynos, with-auto-scaling up so we’ll add on a bit for that. (not recommended, let’s call it $120/month).

• A single performance-m dyno with auto-scale to 2 ($250/month maybe),

• a performance-l ($500/month)

Staging:

1 standard-2x dyno, at $50

$170

$550

Background workers

Production:

• 2 standard-2x ($100) with auto-scaling up. Hard to predict actual auto-scaling charges, let’s call it $150 total.

Staging:

• 1 standard-2x ($50)

$200

$200

Database

Heroku postgres standard-0 ($50) in production and staging.

$100

$100

Redis
One heroku redis premium-0 ($15) in production+staging

$30

$30

Solr
SearchStax. Either an NDN1 ($20/month with annual contract) or NDN2 ($40 with annual contract). x2 for production and staging.

$40

$80

Autoscaling

hirefire.io. $15/month, or $25/month with “overclocking”.

Does not include minutes of scaled dynos, just the autoscaler itself.

$15

$25

Logging

Papertrail, not entirely clear what tier we need for our traffic, we’re guessing the $16 or $30 plan.

$16

$30

Sub-total

$571

$1015

Add 10% margin

Hard to estimate costs including:

• one-off dynos charged per-minute for scheduled tasks, developer console, rake tasks.

• Just things we didn’t account for, put in some wiggle-room.

$57

$101

TOTAL:

$628

$1116