News

Background daemons supported

Thursday, April 23, 2009

RailsCluster is proud to announce full support for running background daemons such as BackgrounDRb, Ferret, memcached and Sphinx. For an extra monthly fee you can run such daemons in a clustered fashion.

Deployment simplified

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Deployment has been simplified on RailsCluster. Check the revised Capistrano recipe if you are getting errors about cluster_restart or cluster_unlock.

New plans at reduced prices

Friday, February 13, 2009

RailsCluster has designed new plans for Ruby on Rails hosting based on your feedback, amongst which a special staging plan. The prices have been reduced as well. You can try out our staging plans 30 days for free.

The new plans in a nutshell:

  • The business plan offers clustered Ruby on Rails hosting for professional web applications.
  • The enterprise offers clustered Ruby on Rails hosting for popular web applications that have outgrown the business plan.
  • The staging plan offers clustered Ruby on Rails hosting for web applications in the development and acceptance phase.

Read and compare our new plans or read more about the advantages that our cluster has to offer.

SSH port changed to 2222

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

De SSH port of ssh.railscluster.nl has been changed to 2222. This improves the security of all accounts. Deploying using Capistrano and logging in from the command line requires a minor change.

The following has to be added to config/deploy.rb for Capistrano:

ssh_options[:port] = 2222

Logging in from the command line can now be done using:

ssh account@ssh.railscluster.nl -p 2222

Please contact us if you require further support.

Cron support improved

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

The support for cron scripts has been improved. RailsCluster recommends to update all crontabs to use the new cluster_task wrapper.

The cluster_task wrapper ensures that cron scripts do not run twice and in parallel. This improves performance and avoids race conditions in your application.

The wrapper is to be placed before the actual cron script. Example:

PATH=/opt/ruby-enterprise/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/cluster_task rake cron:hourly

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RailsCluster is the fastest and most reliable Ruby on Rails hosting platform in the Netherlands. Rack applications such as Merb are supported as well.

Please contact us for more information.