Archive: posts from January 2008

New, lower pricing for Brightboxes 28 Jan 08

As we approach the end of our first three months since official launch we’ve now got a clearer view of our costs. So we’re pleased to say that from today the following revised pricing will apply to new and existing customers…

  • Brightbox 256 (was £45/mo) now £39
  • Brightbox 512 (was £75/mo) now £69
  • Brightbox 1024 (was £125/mo) now £109
  • Brightbox 2048 (was £220/mo) now £199

See the updated pricing matrix for more details. Enjoy.

Posted 28 January 2008 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: add comment

Brightbox Affiliate Programme 28 Jan 08

Fancy earning a little extra cash from your Ruby/Rails related blog or website?

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Today, we’re launching the Brightbox affiliate program - which means you can earn money by referring new customers to us.

We’ll provide you with a unique affiliate URL to point visitors to the Brightbox website. When you refer a new customer to us (and once they’ve been with us 3 months), you’ll receive a payment equal to one months fee for each Brightbox virtual machine they purchase!

Check out the affiliate program page for more details and FAQs.

Posted 28 January 2008 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: add comment

Brightbox hits the road 22 Jan 08

PizzaOnRails logoJanuary 2008 is by far our most sociable month to date. Last week it was GeekUp in Leeds which was great fun, and over the next few days, John and myself will be popping in to PizzaOnRails in London (Thurs 24th Jan) and also speaking at NWRUG in Manchester (Tues 29th Jan).

NWRUG logoAt NWRUG we’ll be doing a presentation about setting up Brightbox and some of the highs and lows, ins and outs of building a Ruby-related tech business oop north. After the event we’ll be heading to The Paramount for drinks, so come and say hello - we might even buy you a drink (or two if you’re a customer :)

Posted 22 January 2008 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: 3 comments

37signals (and DHH) love Xen 4 Jan 08

37signals, the team behind popular productivity apps such as Basecamp, Backpack and Campfire, recently posted some stats which make fascinating reading. Of greater interest to us, though, is their use of Xen virtualisation for parts of the server infrastructure and the plans to upgrade more servers to Xen over the next couple of months, reducing their physical server count from 30 to 16 whilst remaining at around 100 cores.

DHH, Mr Rails himself, in another comment says of Xen:

Wonderful system. Strongly recommended for anyone building out a cluster.

What better recommendation to you need that Xen is a perfect solution for Rails hosting and scaling?!

Posted 4 January 2008 by Jeremy Jarvis ::: add comment