# How much host do I need?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-much-host-do-i-need/126774>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 22, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-much-host-do-i-need/126774 "2008-01-22T03:06:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-much-host-do-i-need/126774/1 "2008-01-22T03:06:14Z")

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I’m thinking of running a smallish shopping cart app in rails on  
slicehost…

For the $20/month plan, they give you 256MB ram, 10GB storage, and  
100GB of bandwidth.

What I’m wondering is… How healthy of a server would that be? Any  
ideas of how many hits/day something like that could support?

Thanks in advance.