Rely on us: 70 people,
2 data centers, 4 continents.

We handle deployment and operations, so you can focus on your application and your business. Smoothly scale from 1 user to 1 million.

Rails Focus, Worldwide

Our Rails focus started in 2004. We've created apps, written books, & spoken at conferences. Our commitment to service is #1, with team members in the USA, UK, Asia, Spain & Australia.

  • What You Get

    Rails & operations experts at your service. Cluster technology running your apps. Basically, proven deployment without hassles. More...

  • We are located worldwide
Peace of Mind
You write it, we run it.
A new level of service, technology, & focus.
Scale from early development to millions of users without changing platforms.
Off-site backups of DB & SVN included!
Developer and reseller programs.
People
Live humans answer the phone!
Fully managed 24/7.
USA, UK, EU, Australia.
Proven experts at your service
(Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Evan Phoenix (Rubinius), Tom Mornini, Jayson Vantuyl, etc.)
MySQL & Postgres experts make sure databases are tuned for Rails apps, queries are efficient, etc.
On-site staff and employees available through Quality Humans, Inc.
20-year business history
(BASIC Stamps® to large websites)
Foundation
Service-oriented philosophy.
High ratio of staff to customers!
Complete hardware & software stack developed to serve Rails apps on enterprise quality infrastructure.
Rails-optimized Gentoo Linux.
Replicated MySQL & PostgreSQL, clustered Subversion, SAN filesystem.
Qwest & UUNet bandwidth provides very fast connections to users.
Tier 4, Class A data centers.
SAS 70 certified for sensitive data.
Secure SSH access to every slice.
Scalability
Add slicesTM as you grow.
Add dedicated DB and disk resources, if needed.
Move to dedicated clusters when you grow even more.
Respond quickly and smoothly to traffic spikes.
Reliability
Redundant hardware stack, from load balancers to web servers.
SAN storage for filesystem gives reliability and instant access to user-generated content by all your application servers.
Solid financial footing and business history of owners, data centers, etc.
Ease of Use
We deploy your application for you!
Run your application on your MacBook, then deploy to Engine Yard with no changes.
No deployment knowledge required!
We write your Capistrano recipes for you.
Linux
Engine Yard compilation of Gentoo Linux, optimized for Rails apps.
Because it's Linux, everything just works... gems, etc!
SLICE is used under license.