Archive October 2008

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RailsCluster: Ruby on Rails cluster hosting

Friday, October 31, 2008

Nedforce introduces RailsCluster: the fastest and most reliable Ruby on Rails hosting platform from the Netherlands. The platform is fully redundant, twice as fast as other Ruby on Rails hosts and has an availability of 99,8%. Rack applications such as Merb are supported as well.

Hosted Ruby on Rails en Rack applicaties run on a fully redundant cluster with Ruby Enterprise Edition, Phusion Passenger and a choice of a hot failover MySQL or dual active PostgreSQL database. Additionally, each account comes with an extensive control panel and multiple mailboxes.

Plans start from € 59,- monthly excluding VAT for 2 GB storage and 10 GB traffic. Extra backup plans are available in which case full backups will even be stored in a nuclear bunker.

A free trial period of 30 days is available with no strings attached. More information is available at http://en.railscluster.nl.

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Nedforce co-sponsor twente.rb

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Nedforce and Blue Tools promote twente.rb: the Twente user group for Ruby, Ruby on Rails and related technologies. The goal: exchange experiences, learn together and have a fun evening. The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 29 at 20:00.

The first meeting will be held at Eet- en Bierencafé De Beiaard at the “Oude Markt” in Enschede. All Twente-based Ruby developers and others interested are invited.

A ‘Twente.rb’ Google Group was created for discussion and announcement of interesting events. Registration is free, refreshments at your own expense.

Nedforce is expert in Ruby on Rails development and hosting. Using this proven technology we deliver first-class Web 2.0 applications with short turnaround times, a flexible mentality and compliant with the latest standards.

Please contact us for more information.