Introducing Memcache As A Service!

Posted 4 days ago

First Memcache as a Service from Gear6 Now Available!

At Blue Box Group, we are a partner in your business. As such, we continually strive to provide you with the best tools to give your site an edge. Nine months ago we partnered with Gear6 to implement their memcached distribution solution as a new way to scale Rails apps and see better site performance overall. The results seen by early adopters have been stellar.

Memcached is a popular, open-source distributed caching system that has gained tremendous traction in data center environments. Dynamic, high-growth web sites face never-ending challenges to maintain performance, support traffic growth, and offer better and deeper user experiences. With new Web 2.0 requirements, database and app loads can grow to levels that can’t be easily sustained. Memcached is designed to offload your database and application servers and, for this reason, is widely used by popular and dynamic sites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr to scale out.

While you can get your own copy of memcached and roll with it, we know first hand that it can be challenging to enhance, manage and scale. Gear6 Memcache as a Service has taken the guess work out of using memcached. Gear6 has hardened their memcached distro, added replication and clustering, optimized memory usage for a smaller footprint, included security and networking controls. Because Gear6 Memcache as a Service serves database and application requests from DRAM, web site performance can be boosted by 100x or more, and read-intensive database loads are slashed. This enhanced, highly-efficient, highly-available Gear6 memcached service means that more – or even all – of your objects can reside in cache, further boosting performance, controlling your costs, enhancing your uptime and pleasing your users.

The Gear6 Web Cache service is fully integrated with the Blue Box Group platform, so you can have seamless management and monitoring abilities in a single offering. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Hosting Companies Unite to Provide Relief for Haiti.

Posted 19 days ago

On January 12, an earthquake, and the following aftershocks, devastated the country of Haiti.

Little can be said to ease the pain and suffering of the people in Haiti, which is why we have decided to help. Blue Box Group is proud to join the hosting community in gathering together to provide aid through the American Red Cross and hostingforhaiti.com.

Please visit www.hostingforhaiti.com for more information on this great collaboration or to donate.

• If you are in the Seattle area and would like to donate your time, there is a CrisisCamp Haiti event this Saturday, January 23 from 9AM to 5PM. For more information please visit http://www.eventbrite.com/event/542966026/?ref=esdg

Proud to Introduce Nathan Kaiser, Blue Box Group's New COO!

Posted about 1 month ago

Seattle Based Blue Box Group Starts 2010 Off With A Bang

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Blue Box Group hires well known Seattle tech influencer as new COO

Nathan Kaiser, co-founder of nPost, will be responsible for helping manage the company’s growing business Seattle, Wa – January 8, 2010 — Blue Box Group, a leader in managed web hosting and specializing in ruby on rails applications, announced today that they have hired well known Seattle entrepreneur and nPost co-founder, Nathan Kaiser, as their new Chief Operations Officer. The company’s rapid growth in 2009, and increasingly diverse customer base presented a need for the fresh perspective and experience that Mr. Kaiser can provide.

“Nathan Kaiser is the quintessential Seattle Entrepreneur with extensive roots within the Seattle startup community,” said Jesse Proudman, Blue Box Group’s CEO. “We look forward to his guidance to assist in managing Blue Box’s explosive growth into 2010 and beyond.”

The company has seen triple digit growth since its inception in 2003, and more than doubled their staff in 2009. The addition of an exceptionally experienced COO will help Blue Box Group optimize their efficiencies and sales objectives. “I am very excited to be working with such a great team, especially one that works so closely with the very startup community that I have been a big supporter of over the years,” said Nathan Kaiser.

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About Blue Box Group:

Founded in 2003, Blue Box Group provides managed web hosting solutions. They approach web hosting, virtual and dedicated servers as a partnership with their customers. Blue Box Group knows technology and scalable ruby on rails deployments. Blue Box Group offers quality service and dedication to each customer, ensuring your rails hosting experience is smooth and uncomplicated

Attention All Boxcar Customers!

Posted 2 months ago

Planet Argon will be shutting down their boxcar hosts after the end of this month, so if you’ve been migrated and you haven’t repointed your DNS to your servers with us, it’s important that you do so immediately. If your DNS is still pointed at your Planet Argon host after they’re shut down, your site will become unavailable, so it’s important that you let us know as soon as possible if you have any questions or concerns.

Anyone who has not been migrated yet should have received an e-mail with the date we’re planning on finalizing the migration. Please get in touch with us as soon as possible to coordinate DNS changes, and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

If you’re a boxcar customer and have already taken care of DNS changes with us, you can disregard this message—your site(s) will not be affected. This will also not affect service for any other Blue Box Group customers.