Archive: posts from June 2007

Hey, what’s the hold up? 28 Jun 07

If you’ve been paying close attention, you might have noticed the countdown timer recently disappeared from the holding page. Don’t panic, nothing sinister is happening :) It’s just that our testing has taken a little longer than planned (plus a delay in the delivery of some new shiny hardware set us back another week).

Jason Fried (37signals) was right and I should have listened:

..we don’t have release dates. It’s a great way to make sure things are never late.

Also, in response to some good early feedback, John’s been working on a deployment gem that will make it super simple to deploy your Ruby on Rails apps to Brightbox.

Posted 28 June 2007 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: 1 comment

Brightbox beta program 19 Jun 07

We’re currently looking for a few more active Rails developers to help us test our new Brightbox rails hosting service and provide some valuable feedback. The ideal participants will most likely fit most of the following profile:

  1. Be developing in Ruby on Rails almost exclusively for new projects.
  2. Currently hosting, or looking to host in the next 3 months, at least one production rails app
  3. At least some experience of deploying rails to a production environment
  4. Be the decision-maker, have the casting vote or at least have a major say in where apps are hosted at their company or agency
  5. Have an active or rails-focused blog

Interested? drop a quick email to beta-req@brightbox.co.uk and tell us a bit about your app/apps and how you fit into the above profile. You might just get a free brightbox to play with, plus a nice discount when we launch.

UPDATE: (30 Jul 2007)
We’re well into the beta programme now so we’re not looking for any more beta testers.

Posted 19 June 2007 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: 2 comments

Brightbox says “Hello World” 19 Jun 07

Welcome to Brightblog!

We’ll be using this blog to post interesting stuff (in our opinion) about the new UK-based Rails hosting service we’ll be launching soon.

Posted 19 June 2007 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: 1 comment