Why EngineYard?

We get frequent questions about our hosting strategy:

• Why not host yourself?
  
• Why host in the US?
  
• What's so good about EngineYard?

Here's a really good interview with Tom (EY CTO) and Lance (EY CEO) discussing the answers to the questions above and more.

A good interview and a great indication as to why we work so closely with EngineYard.

NewRelic

We recently signed up through EngineYard for the NewRelic beta programme. What a revelation!

We are no longer digging through log files for all the important (but hard to find) data on bottlenecks or benchmarking data. We now have a clear picture of normal and good application behaviour.

Some highlights:

• easy install - minutes
• real time data
• responsive support
  

The last aspect is worthy of note - trying the developer mode on one of our apps caused a graceful failure - NewRelic didn't show up because of some gnarly routing in our app. I dropped the guys at NewRelic a quick email expecting a response in 24 hours (perfectly adequate IMHO). 10 Minutes later I had feedback and a resolution in a little while longer - awesome speed guys!

As we like to act on data, this app rules - now we have the data and can operate on our apps with greater precision than we thought possible.

I seriously recommend NewRelic if you want to know your Rails app inside and out.

Credit has to go to both partners in this venture - EngineYard has always delivered kick ass hosting and support for Moneyspyder and now EngineYard and NewRelic together help us deliver world class performing and scaling Rails applications to our clients.