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Websiteengineyard.com
Blogengineyard.com/blog
CategoryEnterprise
Phone866-518-9273
Email
Employees70
Founded2006
DescriptionRuby on rails hosting

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San Francisco, USA
82 South Park
San Francisco, CA, 94107
USA

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Software Architect
Software Architect
Director of Support
Director of Operations
CEO

Funding

Total$18.5M
Series A, 1/08
Benchmark Capital
$3.5M
Series B, 7/08
Benchmark Capital
Amazon
New Enterprise Associates
$15M

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Engine Yard

Engine Yard provides infrastructure services and support to allow clients to scale their Ruby on Rails applications quickly and effortlessly. Engine Yard’s services are open, cross-platform, and available 24/7.

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Engine Yard

Websiteengineyard.com
Blogengineyard.com/blog
StageLive
Tags hosting

Engine Yard provides hosting and infrastructure services for companies looking to deploy Ruby on Rails applications to their customers. Services provided are divided between physical assets (servers, storage, email accounts, tools) and the level of service that Engine Yard’s experienced staff provides. Engine Yard services are charged by the “slice” (individual instance of assets and support), and pricing declines for users buying multiple slices.

Engine Yard’s competition comes from players like Joyent and Sun’s JRuby.

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Above: Engine Yard Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Comments

Randall Thomas - February 18, 2008 at 6:14pm
Hi Greg, As to the "who" for this pack of jokers check out http://engineyard.com/whoweare The downtime claim referred to our data center for power and connectivity. (Not so long ago when we only had one datacenter.) It's hard to see in the picture but it says "data center on the right side of the picture" ([img]http://img.skitch.com/20080219-c426ii5ran63wtbjf1nxnt1au9.jpg[/img] We're pretty open about our own uptime. We blog about technical issues affecting for our customers (and anyone else that's interested): http://engineyard.wordpress.com/ Although, we need to remove that because our data center did have a connectivity outage a few months ago. And while we did just close our series A round a while back, we were a cash flow positive company before we signed up with Benchmark Capital (www.benchmark.com/). We thought Benchmark had the best understanding of what companies can do with open source when given a chance and some financial support.
Ken Robertson - January 15, 2008 at 1:11am
Engine Yard used to be a part of a consulting company called Quality Humans (http://www.qualityhumans.com/). Their hosting department basically branched out and developed their clustering technology in 2006. Their downtime data is likely tied to when they were a part of Quality Humans.
Greg Retkowski - January 12, 2008 at 8:29am
Who are these guys anyway? How can someone claim 'Zero downtime since 2001' when they registered their domain less than a year ago and just got their series-one investment this week? -- Greg Retkowski, Rage.Net / Real infra since 1999.

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  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark (brainspl.at) [edit]
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