meteor-up

In my experience, I've found Galaxy not only to be expensive, but also lacking in support and stability. One way around this is to host your own Meteor applications on a VPS using a program like mup[0] [0]: https://github.com/zodern/meteor-up

+1 for Meteor. I'm pretty sure Jason uses Mupx for deployment to DigitalOcean (https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up/tree/mupx). For anyone interested, this package makes it super easy to setup all the tools and deploy to the servers (almost as easy as pushing to Heroku!). I've had good experience in scaling using Mupx and Cluster (another package from the same team - https://github.com/meteorhacks/cluster)

For a cheap hosted option you can setup a Digital Ocean droplet at $10/month and use Meteor Up (https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up/tree/mupx) for your deployments. This will include the database as well. That link is to Meteor Up X(development version) which uses Docker just like Galaxy. Once it's stable it'll be merged into Meteor Up. I've been using it for prod/staging pushes and it works great even with SSL.

I just had to create a package with my CSS: http://www.telesc.pe/docs/custom-themes/ and tweak two lines of JavaScript to alter the number of results per day. To install it I followed this: http://www.telesc.pe/docs/installing-telescope/ Used this to deploy: https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up On a 1GB Ram 30GB SSD Disk node-v0.10.30 on Ubuntu 14.04 Digital Ocean droplet And got the domain on google domains, and that's it.