Archive: posts from November 2007

New 2GB Brightbox and another bandwidth boost for 1GB boxes 29 Nov 07

Earlier this week we added a new product at the top of the range – the imaginatively titled Brightbox 2048 :)

This new box comes with 2GB of RAM and also has a whole dedicated CPU core at it’s disposal giving an additional performance advantage. The Brightbox 2048 is priced at £220 per month, with the usual discount for annual payments. Check out the full list of specs and how it compares up to our existing rails hosting products →

Also, today, we added *another* 50GB of bandwidth to the Brightbox 1024 product, now giving a total of 150GB/month.

Brightbox Gem v0.24 2 Nov 07

I’ve just released a new version of the Brightbox Gem. It might takes a few hours to get to all the Rubyforge mirrors but in the mean time you can download and install it manually directly from the project page.

It’s largely just a maintenance release, which means no Capistrano v2.0 support just yet, it still requires Capistrano 1.4.1. Cap 2.0 support is in the works though and will be released soon.

A quick summary of the changes:

• Fixes default Monit config bug (changes totalmem to mem, no more false memory overage alarms!)
• Fails out if MySQL database exists on cold_deploy (you really shouldn’t be running a cold_deploy a second time anyway)
• Adds reconfigure task (for easy adding of mongrels or domain changes)
• Archives Apache configs on cold_deploy or reconfigure
• Fixes Capistrano 1.4 dependency (will pull in v1.4.1 if necessary now)
• Changes default Apache log location to /var/log/web (for new cold_deploys or reconfigures)

Remember that you need to upgrade the Brightbox gem both in your development environment and on your Brightbox.

The HOWTO on deploying your Rails app using the Brightbox is here as usual.

Extra 25GB/month data on all Brightbox plans 1 Nov 07

We’ve updated all three plans with an extra 25GB data/bandwidth a month. So, a Brightbox 256 now comes with 50GB/month, 512 with 75GB/month and 1024 boxes come with 100GB/month.

Naturally, this applies to *all* customers.