Fear of Fish
Don't be afraid, I work at Engine Yard, not a sushi bar.
I Smell Cheese!
April 4th, 2007
Coming soon, a UK Xen-Based VPS hosting company with a twist of Cheese. I noticed there seemed to be a serious lack in Rails specific services in the UK that offered the size of memory we need for hosting more than one site. So I came up with a plan which would fulfil that hole. Here's the plan:
Cheddar
256 Mb Memory + 20 Gb Storage + 20 Gb Bandwidth = £20 a month
Wensleydale
512 Mb Memory + 30 Gb Storage + 40 Gb Bandwidth = £30 a month
Stilton
1024 Mb Memory + 50 Gb Storage + 75 Gb Bandwidth = £40 a month
...and to top it off, I host your mail services on a separate VCS (that's Virtual Cheesey Server) to save your memory.
I'm working on the web site and client tools as we speak, you'll be able to wipe your machine and start again at the click of a button at no charge. Reboot it with a web button etc. All the usual you'd expect from someone who's written remote xen management tools in Ruby. We'll also be offering some enterprisey packages further down the line, but for now this is your pick of the cheese.
Using the plan names, can you guess the name of the company? It's very cheesey, for lack of a better term.
Fear of Cheese
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Jamie van Dyke
Jamie van Dyke has been a Rails developer since the beginning of 2005, working with some of the major players in the web market. He also played a large part in the documenting of Rails for the Caboose Documentation Project and teaches others on his blog and in training sessions around the world. Jamie is a core Rails contributor, and the publisher of multiple gems and plugins.
I'm a father of 2, living in a little village called Skipton which is in North Yorkshire, England. Anything else you'd like to know you can ask. Check out my photo and info at the caboose facebook or my flickr page.
Jamie is also unsure why he must write a Bio in third person, and doesn't really have a fear of fish, he just dislikes the taste and smell of them.
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