Engineyard.com Launches - Reliable, Easily Managed, Instantly Scalable Rails Hosting
Engineyard.com launched yesterday and it looks really awesome. From the website:
“The first Ruby on Rails application deployment service that combines reliability, ease of use, and scalability.”
They have engineered a superb network of hardware and software to provide an easy, reliable and scalable Ruby on Rails solutions. From a glance these guys have also set this up on a rock-solid infrastructure and on some great hardware/software.
I believe they are using finely tuned and customized Gentoo Linux images and ( to start ) a 6TB SAN storage solution along with fault-tolerant, redundant and high-availability Web, Email, DNS and DB servers. And get this, because of the 6TB SAN, their Dual, Dual-Core Opteron servers don’t have hard-drives, just 128MB ATA flash cards.
I’m the type that would LOVE to just a week or weekend setting this type of system up myself, but I can definitely see the value in saving time for others who don’t have the time or resources to really do this themselves. Who knows, I’m even considering this as a deployment solution for SugarStats when we launch.
“Your applications benefit from redundant and load balanced web, application, database, and mail servers. Redundant SAN storage safeguards your data and clusterizes your application with no code changes.”
Sweet…
Here is a map of their Physical Application Cluster
Here is a map of their Logical Application Cluster
Ezra ( One of the Rails deployment specialists to build Engineyard ) has just put up a post describing the technical layout and technology stack of Engineyard
They’ve setup the system to be very easy to use and have it so any deployed app/account can be managed, up/downgraded and setup via a simple web based interface. When signing up you get “slices” of the Engineyard service. It is best described like this:
“Engine Yard cluster capacity is purchased by the slice. When you buy a slice, you get a VPS dedicated to your application, PLUS you get a proportional part of the cluster’s resources, which include multiple database servers, web servers, mail servers, load balancers, etc.”
“You arrange slices into environments. A typical customer may have 1 slice for their Staging environment, plus 2-4 slices for their Production environment. When you get more than 1 slice for a given environment, the system ensures that those slices are on different physical hardware, another way we offer high reliability for your applications.”
“The reason to get more than 2 slices for a given environment is one of capacity. If you have a site that gets a lot of traffic, you may need more Production slices. If your business has seasonal peaks, or gets Dugg or Slashdotted, you can buy more slices precisely when you need them. It’s instant scalability, which allows you to grow with your needs and pay as you go.”
The pricing starts at $249 per slice ( plus a $199 setup fee ) but they are having a special 90 day sign-up promotion where you can get them for $149 ( plus a $99 setup fee ). Also the price per slice gets cheaper as the volume of slices purchased increases.
All in all this is looking like a really great, solid and reliable service. I would recommend going over to Engineyard.com and checking them out if you’re launching a Ruby on Rails app anytime soon.
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Posted on September 25, 2006
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Hardware, Hosting, Productivity, Ruby on Rails, SEO, Startup, Tech, Web
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Hey man thanks for blogging about us! I am really excited about EngineYard. It has been great to be a part of designing and implementing what imho will be one of the most kick ass ways to host your mission critical rails apps. Drop me a line if you want to talk more seriously about any apps you need deployed
Thanks for the blog, Marston!
Something you said made me grin: “I’m the type that would LOVE to just a week or weekend setting this type of system up myself, but I can definitely see the value in saving time for others who don’t have the time or resources to really do this themselves.”
Oh, if only it took a single one of us a weekend!
Cheers, and thanks again!
Ezra: Hey no problem, its sounding like a really great solution. I will definitely be contacting you once I get closer to releasing my next app SugarStats, though it might be a little ways off.
Tom: Haha, yeah I’m sure it didn’t in the least. Though it sounds like something I would take great pride in and have a lot of fun being a part of.