Engine Yard Cloud Services

You write it, we run it—get back to running your business and leave the rest to us.

Engine Yard offers a full range of Ruby on Rails Application Clouds. From our self-service Solo and Flex plans running on Public Clouds, to our fully-managed Private Cloud, Engine Yard makes running your Rails applications simple. Plus, you get to run your application on the number one Ruby on Rails runtime stack available.

Cloud Services

Our Flex and Solo plans let you leverage the on-demand flexibility of a public cloud with the application scaling, reliability and ease-of-deployment that you require.

Solo

Engine Yard Solo is an inexpensive, web-based platform for running your Ruby on Rails web application. Solo is an excellent hosting option for smaller-scale web applications. Usage is fully metered beyond a minimum of $25 per month, so you pay for what you use. There are no setup fees and no environment fees.

Flex

The Engine Yard Flex plan is intended for production sites that need the mission critical infrastructure, support and expertise provided by Engine Yard Support, with the flexibility of a cloud infrastructure. Engine Yard Flex provides a cost-effective, elastically scalable application platform for production Ruby on Rails sites. The Flex plan offers an unlimited number of Linux operating system instances powered by commercial compute clouds (currently Amazon Web Services), and offers metered pricing beyond a minimum monthly usage fee of $249 per month.

Private Cloud

When you signup for Engine Yard Private Cloud services, you get a portion of our business and technical resources–including Rails-focused deployment support, our Ruby on Rails cluster computing platform, and a data center with proven technical and financial stability.

Classic

The Classic Plan is the best way to get started hosting your application on the Engine Yard Private Cloud. This is the most common setup for existing businesses that are starting a new Ruby on Rails project and want the benefits of a fully-managed private cloud.

Fractional

The Fractional Plan is the next step up from Classic on the Private Cloud. If you are running a successful service with growing traffic and don’t want variability in performance, you will want the Fractional Plan. Businesses that have special data retention requirements, such as HIPAA, financial compliance,or dedicated databases, will also want to consider this option. With Fractional, you can ensure more consistent performance which is only possible in this environment.

Dedicated

If you are running a large-scale Rails application (approximately 1 million monthly unique visitors on a mid-complexity application), having your own dedicated cluster may be the right call. With the Dedicated Plan, we spec your needs and then build a fully dedicated cluster just for your applications. You’ll have your own load balancers, switches and other hardware in this environment. Dedicated space and power guarantee much higher future expandability without disruption.