Ruby on Rails Hosting with Engine Yard Cloud

We help deploy and manage your Ruby applications in the cloud

Rails Web Application Hosting Made Easy

Engine Yard has been a pioneer in Ruby on Rails hosting since 2006. Our team has extensive experience working on Open Source Software projects like Bundler, Sinatra, fog, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, Bundler, RVM, Rubinius, and Travis CI. With Engine Yard’s Ruby on Rails, you can select the best application server type for your app with choices like Unicorn, Passenger and Puma.

Ruby Stack on Engine Yard

Looking to deploy your Ruby application in the cloud? The Engine Yard infrastructure stack has been highly optimized, tried and tested and has been developed over 10 years of full stack Ruby on Rails experience. Your application will run up to 50% faster with our infrastructure. Our autoscaling capabilities ensure that there is no performance degradation when unplanned traffic hits and require no manual setup or intervention. What's more, our platform uses monitoring data to continuously optimize your application’s performance.

Check out our Ruby stack:
  • Load Balancer – HAPROXY, AWS ELB/ALB
  • Language – Ruby
  • Frameworks – Rails, Sinatra, Grape
  • Web Server – Nginx, Rack
  • App Server – Unicorn, Passenger, Puma
  • Database – MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS
  • Caches – Redis, Memcached
  • Utilities – Sidekiq, Resque, Delayed Job
Easy NoOps Ruby on Rails Application Deployment
Deploying your Ruby apps with Engine Yard is reliable and easy. Our simple deployment process automates your application environment on top of AWS and saves you from having to keep an in-house cloud and database specialist.
Supported Databases
We make sure you’re covered with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Aurora, RDS PostgreSQL, and RDS MySQL so you are able to choose the database that works for you. Our database support engineers back your team with specialization on AWS RDS and EC2 Technologies. We monitor around the clock and send out alerts should any service be impacted. In addition to constant coverage, we provide database upgrades, migrations and conversions. Taking it one step further, our team carries out Performance Tuning and Query Analysis.
24x7 Support
At Engine Yard we take great pride in our support offering which is universally acknowledged to be one of the best in business. We offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee and our support team has a consistent 98% satisfaction rating. Our DBAs and System Admins are domain experts with over 20 years of experience. The team has extensive experience with Linux and has also worked with microservice technologies such as Hephy, Kubernetes, Docker. We also provide you with access to a seasoned DevOps team. All these resources are included in our support plans and do not require any additional investment.
Ruby Expertise
Our Support Team includes Ruby on Rails experts who can help diagnose issues, find performance bottlenecks, and optimize your code to make the best out of Ruby, Rails, Gems and more.
Ruby App Monitoring
Engine Yard intelligently monitors application performance providing robust insights into how the application runs and behaves in production to optimize the operations of the application (such as autoscaling). You also get automated alerts in case of application failure, abnormal resource usage etc. Customers can even add their own alerts.
Managed Services
We provide a fully managed service from deploying your application code, configuring your instance, supporting your database, to automating backups.
Platform Updates
At Engine Yard we understand the importance of service availability which is why we ensure your platform updates are automatic, in production, and disruption free.
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Using Engine Yard has enabled the Comestri team to focus on maximum velocity for dev, while relying on a technology partner who can help us with great infrastructure and expert support even for our custom requirements.

Craig Bennett,

CTO, Comestri

We rely on Engine Yard to deliver a flexible, reliable platform with a rock-solid stack, so we don’t have to invest in building internal resources and hiring an ops team. Even with our customized configurations, Engine Yard makes it easy to deploy – we just click a button. We go from development to staging to production with all of our focus on building a great product.

CJ Johnson,

CTO & CoFounder, 3Play Media

With Engine Yard, we get a vast offering from application cloud platform through the amazing customization and deploy system with Chef to the support and professional services. We can attack any of our loftiest goals now.

Michael Smith,

CTO, Canvas

ChannelEyes chose Engine Yard because we were looking for a reliable and scalable platform for a Rails-based social media platform. The support team has been highly responsive, and we've saved countless hours by relying on their technical expertise with deploying high-traffic Rails apps. With that time savings, our developers were able to focus on pushing the technical envelope with multi-layer security, a unique friending engine, as well as messaging.

Jay McBain,

Co-Founder and Chief Social Officer, Channeleyes

Engine Yard has helped us save hundreds of hours on infrastructure work and on deployments. For Ruby on Rails applications, it has been the best PaaS provider for years.

David Zumbrunnen,

Software Engineer, Oxon

We recommend Engine Yard Cloud to all of our clients, including Toyota Kenya, because we get huge time and cost savings. We would need another 5 people to manage infrastructure internally. Instead, we rely on Engine Yard, and we focus our developers on writing code which keeps them and our customers happy.

Shaun Richards,

Managing Partner, Platform45

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Engine Yard Kontainers is the NoOps Paas platform that enables you to deploy containerized applications in minutes instead of days.

But don’t just take our word for it. Request a free trial of the Engine Yard Kontainers platform today, and one of our Engineers will be in contact within one business day to get you going.

With your free trial, you will get a fully functional Engine Yard Kontainers cluster for a month, including:

  • Tools to deploy, run, and scale Rails apps.
  • Monitoring and alerting dashboard.
  • Log aggregation.
  • Autoscaling based on any metric you choose.
  • Support free of charge to get your Rails apps deployed.
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