title: What's an openshift gear? Can it be the equivalent of a web-worker?
body: <p>Openshift pricing model states that you can have <strong>3 gears</strong> in the free tier.</p>
  
  <p>Other services normally explain their free tiers in number of "web workers" that you can have.</p>
  
  <p>What is an openshift's gear exactly then? I know that you can install a different programming environment in each gear, but if you install the same one (let's say: ruby) in all your 3 free-tier gears, do you have 3 web-workers running at the same time? (As in: improving scalability and redundancy; are they load-balanced?)</p>