Pay for what you need today, next month, and next year.
Start with 1 Staging sliceTM, then add 2 slices for Production when you get public users. As your needs change, you can easily add and remove slices and even whole clusters.
Slice Pricing
Engine Yard services are purchased by the slice. When you buy a slice, you get a portion of Engine Yard business and technical resources, including Rails-focused deployment support, our Rails cluster computing platform, and a data center with proven technical and financial stability.
(For more information about slices and environments, please see What You Get).
| Number of slices | 1-2 | 3-9 | 10+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost per slice | $399.00 | $379.00 | $359.00 |
| Setup cost per slice | $299.00 | $279.00 | $259.00 |
Prices are for a single application deployed on a slice. Each additional application installed on your slice is an additional $50 per month per slice with a $100 setup fee; each slice receives an extra 128M of RAM.
Typical Configurations:
3 slices: this is the most common configuration for existing businesses that are starting a new Rails project. This allows 1 slice for a staging environment and 2 slices for a production environment.
2 slices: if you already have a staging server somewhere else in your IT infrastructure, then you can start with 2 slices to form a production environment for your public website.
1 slice: if you're just starting development and you don't have public users, 1 slice can form your staging environment.
Of course, you can add and remove slices anytime.
Additional Services:
Each slice comes with certain amounts of bandwidth, storage, and other services. To see what comes with each slice, please see our What You Get page. If you need more than what's included, please see monthly fees below:
- Additional RAM: $0.25/MB/month
- Additional bandwidth: $1/GB/month
- Additional storage: $1/GB/month
Backup Pricing
- $125 per month for your first 1GB.
- $1 per GB additional per month.
When You Need More:
If you have unique requirements, such as a website with very high traffic or sensitive financial/health data, please contact us. You might want to consider a Semi-Dedicated or Fully-Dedicated Cluster. These can be deployed in our data center or in yours.
Semi-Dedicated Cluster: this option is increasing in popularity. We create a custom setup for you that includes at least 6 slices in one of our clusters, plus dedicated databases and/or dedicated disks (usually both). Pricing depends on your needs, but is typically $4-8K/month, fully managed by us.
Dedicated Cluster: this option is also increasing in popularity as Rails apps reach all-new heights. We spec your needs and then build a fully dedicated cluster just for your app(s). We can do a lot of interesting things with a dedicated cluster, such as tuning everything about the cluster to fit your apps' needs and traffic patterns. The minimum dedicated cluster is roughly equivalent to 150 slices. Clusters can exist in our data center or yours. Pricing starts at $17K/month, fully managed by us in our data center.
Affiliates and Resellers
We're building a network of affiliates and resellers around the world. We are seeing great response from independent Rails developers and Rails/web development businesses from Los Angeles to London.
If you're interested in generating extra revenue with Engine Yard services, please contact us.
Here are the two basic programs:
- Affiliates earn generous one-time fees when they bring customers to Engine Yard. We handle all billing and customer service, so affiliates have absolutely no continuing responsibility. This is popular with many independent Rails developers.
- Resellers earn valuable recurring revenue by acting as representatives for Engine Yard. Resellers typically have a market that they address, such as a large customer base or their home country. They support their customers and may even bill them directly. We handle all the back-end processes and make sure their customers stay happy.
