Many pet projects you can run for Free on Heroku. Their docs are pretty straight forward, not sure what your hiccups were but I&#x27;ve deployed quite a few sites to Heroku without much if any issues.<p>The asset pipeline in rails use to cause some issues but I think that has all been resolved with the 12 factor gem.<p>Also setting up a VPS is in no way easier than Heroku. You have to install nginx, ruby, mysql etc. Then you have to setup routing. Then you have to learn all sorts of sysadmin stuff so you don&#x27;t get hacked. Setting firewall permissions, mysql permissions. Then you want to deploy that app. So you have to setup capistrano or whatever. Next thing you know day wasted.<p>Heroku?<p><pre><code>    git push heroku master</code></pre>