This episode was originally published on February 8, 2008.

What if your server resources were metered like your electric bill? Heroku has set out to build a metered cloud computing deployment solution for Rails.

Stick around for the last 10 minutes where we talk about the economics of startups.

<ul>
<li><a href="http://heroku.com">Heroku</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.trustcommerce.com/">Trust Commerce</a></li>
</ul>

<a href="http://workonrails.com">workonrails.com</a>: Find or post Ruby on Rails jobs.

<a href="http://bloc.io">bloc.io</a>: Learn to program with Ruby on Rails. Use code RAILS and save $100.

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