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Entries tagged: service
The Pros and Cons of Using Fractional Ruby on Rails Development Services
22 May 2023
Discover the pros and cons of fractional Ruby on Rails services. Our guide offers insights into this innovative strategy's impact on your project's success!
How To Find Top Ruby on Rails Engineers In This Market
8 Nov 2022
Planet Argon is piloting a new recruiting service to help match Ruby on Rails engineers in the community with organizations that are struggling with their recruitment efforts.
Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Great Client?
2 Mar 2016
Reflecting on our history of working with a wide variety of clients, I share some thoughts on what you'll need to be successful as a client.
Why We Began Selling Support and Maintenance Retainers
19 Feb 2016
We're often asked why we bill in a retainer model. Here's some background on some of our motives when we began to add them to our service offerings.
Monthly Pricing Plan for Rails Boxcar!
10 Apr 2008
By popular demand.. we’re happy to announce that we’ve just rolled out monthly subscription plans for Boxcar, our professional VPS hosting solution for Ruby on Rails applications. That’s right! You can now order a new Boxcar on a month-to-month basis for just $99/month.
Our team has been building a completely new account management and billing system for the past few months and just launched the initial version. Our aim was to get the essentials out to our customers and work with them to learn more about their goals for managing their Boxcars. Over the next few months, we’ll be building automation tools to simplify the process for deploying Ruby on Rails applications to your Boxcar. Be sure to stay tuned and follow Boxcar on twitter as we’ll be posting information there as we launch these changes.
For more information, visit railsboxcar.com or contact us.
Moving to Campfire for Hosting Support
2 Apr 2008
If you’ve been a hosting customer of ours over the past few years, you’re likely familiar with our IRC channel for live hosting support. We’ve recently decided to move more of our efforts online and moving to Campfire, which is where we spend a good portion of our day collaborating together anyway.
Ways to Get Hosting Support
There are a number of ways that you can get your hosting questions answered.
PLANET ARGON Documentation Project
If you have any questions or problems, first take a moment to check out the PLANET ARGON Documentation Project. We teamed with several of our friendly hosting customers to create numerous tutorials related to managing hosting accounts on our servers:
http://docs.planetargon.com/
You can find a lot of tutorials that have been written by other great customers like you. Don’t hesitate to correct any typos, mistakes or stale information in the Documentation Project.
PLANET ARGON Community Forums
Perhaps you have a question that wasn’t answered by the tutorials; post a message or read previous posts on our community forums.
Before you ask a question or respond to another question, please read our our posting guidelines.
PLANET ARGON Live Chat Help
If you didn’t find what you need in any of the tutorials or forums, the next place that you should go is our live chat room.
Stop by our Campfire web-based chat room. We’re typically there during our standard hours of support.
https://www.planetargon.com/chat
Drop by and introduce yourself; ask a question, answer a question.
PLANET ARGON Technical Support
If none of the resources above have helped you solve your problem, you should submit a support ticket to our technical staff or call us at +1 503 445 2457, +1 877 55 ARGON.
October Hackfest: Win a Boxcar!
2 Oct 2007
It’s October and we’re excited to announce that we’re an official sponsor for the Working with Rails monthly hackfest this month. We’ve allocated one Boxcar for the first prize winner of this months hackfest. As of today, you have 29 days to climb your way to the top of the pack.
Good luck to all those who participate this month!
Rails Boxcar is here!
22 Aug 2007
A week ago, we quietly opened up the process for accepting new orders for our brand new hosting solution for Ruby on Rails. Here is what we sent out to all those who signed up on the Rails Boxcar mailing list.
Rails Boxcar is here!
We’ve been busy getting everything setup and tested for our newest hosting solution for Ruby on Rails. Boxcar, a pre-configured virtual server for hosting your business-level Rails applications, was developed out of our observations of how our Rails hosting customers are deploying their applications. Boxcar was designed to support the best-practices for Rails deployment.
How, you ask?
Unlike a typical VPS, we’ve pre-configured Boxcar to allow you to follow just a few steps to get your Rails application up and running as quickly as possible. We’ve also given you more control over your environment to install additional packages, gems, and programs.
We don’t want your Boxcar to box you in… except when you want it to.
Boxcar will provide you with more privacy. Your application will be completely separate from other customers’ applications. You will also get excellent performance as you will not be competing for memory usage or disk space with other customers, which leads to more stability for your application.
Don’t feel lonely!
All Boxcar customers will have access to a community-driven documentation project, aimed at helping everyone share tips
and tricks for configuring and maintaining your Boxcar.
Ready to hop on our train?
For the initial launch, we’re offering 6 and 12 month plans, both of which have a 30 day money back guarantee. Prices start at $85/month for the twelve month plan and $90/month for the six month plan.
Go ahead and place an order
Questions?
If you have any questions about our new Boxcar service, don’t hesitate to send an email to contact@planetargon.com or give us a call at +1 877 55 ARGON.
We’re excited about the launch of Boxcar and would like to thank all of our existing customers who have helped us design it.
Cheers,
The PLANET ARGON Team
High time for Highrise
13 Jun 2007
Earlier today, 37signals, posted an article, which referenced an in-depth review of Highrise by Robby. This review has various tips for getting started with Highrise, and how our team has integrated it into our internal workflow. We’ve been able to use a little GTD along with the Mail.app Act-On plugin to painlessly keep track of our new inquiries.
After trying many other products, none of which ever met our needs, Highrise has become a major fixture in our process for sales, contact management and networking. Also, Basecamp recently received a little spit and polish to give both products a common look and feel, which has made the integration all the more seamless.