Popular Ruby on Rails Applications Choose Engine Yard as Exclusive Hosting
Partner, Engine Yard Customers Receive Complimentary GitHub and Lighthouse
Service Plans
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Engine Yard, provider of the
leading Ruby and Rails deployment platform, today announced it is
sponsoring the newly launched GitHub service, a distributed version control
system, and the popular Lighthouse bug tracking application.
By hosting both GitHub and Lighthouse on Engine Yard's scalable
platform, Ruby and Rails developers can be confident that their source code
and ticket tracking remain highly available and secure. Engine Yard is
donating a private cluster as a part of its ongoing efforts to support open
source communities and nurture open source projects. Engine Yard itself
uses both services in developing its own open source projects Merb and
Rubinius.
As part of the partnership, Engine Yard will provide their customers
with a free Bronze bug tracking plan from Lighthouse
(http://sera.lighthouseapp.com/plans) and a free medium-sized Git
repository hosting account (http://github.com/plans).
"I've used many other hosting services before so I know that the level
of support Engine Yard provides is far superior to other companies," said
Rick Olson, Lighthouse developer and a Rails core committer. "Engine Yard
solves all the dirty back-end server issues that we don't have the time or
interest to handle."
"There would be no GitHub without Engine Yard," said GitHub Co-Founder
Chris Wanstrath. "Our site is Unix-based and very sysadmin-dependent.
Engine Yard's dedicated engineers are experts at solving all the problems
associated with Unix. If I had to have my small team resolve these issues,
GitHub would never have launched this year."
Launched earlier this month, GitHub already hosts repositories for
nearly 5,000 open source projects. Approximately 300 new ones are added
every day and hundreds of paying customers use the service. Several
well-known Ruby and Rails-related open source projects are using GitHub,
including Ruby on Rails itself, RSpec, Prototype, HAML, Capistrano,
DataMapper, Engine Yard's Merb and Rubinius projects and more. Lighthouse
has more than 8,000 accounts and nearly 17,000 daily visitors.
Engine Yard's private GitHub/Lighthouse cluster includes 24 CPUs, 48
hard disks and 96 gigabytes of RAM, ensuring that these services can scale
as much as necessary.
"Engine Yard is committed to making these two production Rails-based
services mission-critical. Bug tracking and version control are essential
and used daily with software development. Since our open source projects,
Merb and Rubinius, depend on GitHub and Lighthouse, Engine Yard knows just
how critical uptime is to developers," said Ezra Zygmuntowicz, an Engine
Yard founder and lead architect.
About Engine Yard
Engine Yard provides the platform and expert support for deploying Ruby
and Rails applications quickly and easily, giving customers the peace of
mind and stability needed for building sites and applications on demand.
Engine Yard has a track record of hiring expert talent and fostering open
source innovation, including stewardship of the Rubinius
(http://www.rubini.us) and Merb (http://www.merbivore.com) projects.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., Engine Yard was founded in 2006 and
is backed by Benchmark Capital. Visit http://engineyard.com.
Contacts:
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Chantal Yang or Sarah Conway
650-565-9800 x752 or 978-969-3010
engineyard@pageonepr.com
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Related links:
http://engineyard.com
http://github.com
CONTACT:
Chantal Yang, +1-650-565-9800 ext. 752, or
Sarah Conway +1-978-969-3010, both of Page One PR for Engine
Yard, engineyard@pageonepr.com
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