Comments on: Are 37signals and Amazon.com building the ultimate Ruby on Rails hosting solution? http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/ A chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, promoted as an automaton but later proved a hoax. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:13:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jordan http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-514 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:09:02 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-514 I think Slamdot already beat them to the punch. I don't know about the hosting environment itself, but the whole control panel was built on Rails. Pretty cool.

]]> By: Ross Hill http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-513 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:19:17 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-513 Of course they are..

]]> By: FreshTECH » Blog Archive » Are 37signals and Amazon.com building the ultimate Ruby on Rails platform? http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-512 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:02:27 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-512 [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: Mickael RÃ&fn http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-511 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:57:32 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-511 For reliability and scalabitily, it seems that some Amazon developers are using Erlang, which scale much better than Ruby or Ruby on Rails.

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Mickael Rémond

]]> By: Ezra Zygmuntowicz http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-510 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:26:15 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-510 I would like to humbly point out my startup company's rails grid hosting service. We are aiming at the fully focused rails stack on top of virtualization, fully managed. Clustered for redundancy and scalability. Rails only.
http://engineyard.com

]]> By: Ben http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-509 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:44:44 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-509 "If you need hosting, TextDrive [textdrive.com] is the official Ruby on Rails host"
- rubyonrails.org (official site of the creators of the framework itself)

]]> By: FreshTECH » Blog Archive » Are 37signals and Amazon.com building the ultimate Ruby on Rails platform? http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-508 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:23:28 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-508 [...] In July, 37signals announced that they had taken a minority private equity investment from Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. Although they didn’t say much about the investment, they took the time to say the following about Jeff Bezos…read more | digg story                [...]

]]> By: Trevor http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-507 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:44:27 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-507 Yup – a few libraries that made it really easy to work Amazon services would go a long way toward the situation I'm talking about.

]]> By: John Topley http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-506 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:42:13 +0000 http://www.almosteffortless.com/2006/11/03/are-37signals-and-amazoncom-building-the-ultimate-ruby-on-rails-hosting-solution/#comment-506 I'm not sure if you're right but it would be really cool if it were true.

Also, Marcel Molina from 37 Signals has been working on a library for S3. See http://www.slash7.com/articles/2006/11/3/intervie…

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