Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'll be trying to sell my Ruby on
Rails development skills to small local businesses.  It seems
I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I couldn't manage to put
their apps into production, in fact catering for this would be a
selling point.  However, I do not want to bill every client
monthly for the cost of their hosting, they would have to be the
contract holders with the hosting service, and I'd only consult
if they needed technical help when scaling.  I've looked on one
hand at cloud platforms, like engine yard, which seem like they
would be too costly for the smaller clients, and on the other
hand at vps providers which seem they would not be client
friendly enough.  Has anyone faced the same issue and come up
with a decent solution ?  share|improve this question  7 Answers
7  up vote 7 down vote accepted  It seems that you are missing
out on some potential revenue by making that restriction--worse,
you may lose business because of it. Here's the deal with local
small businesses (