Announcing Memcached-As-A-Service Partnership with Gear6

Posted 10 months ago

We’ve just announced an exiting new partnership today with a Company called Gear6. This partnership allows us to offer a Memcached-as-a-service offering that allows customers to offload memcached from their servers onto a highly available offering. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling this product out for testing among customers. More information will be posted up on our site over the next few weeks, but get in touch with us if this is something that sounds interesting to you!

The press release follows!

LAS VEGAS, NV – (Marketwire) – 05/06/09 – RAILS CONF – Blue Box Group (www.blueboxgrp.com), a leader in Rails hosting and web management services, and Gear6 (www.gear6.com), the leading provider of scalable Memcached solutions, announced today a partnership to develop and deliver a highly available Memcached-as-a-Service (MaaS) solution which will be available to all Blue Box Group customers.

“We’re very excited about this caching service,” said Stephen Balukoff, Chief Technology Officer at Blue Box Group. “Memcached is already an integral part of all the clustered Ruby on Rails and other websites we host. Gear6 already has a highly available and scalable Memcached solution with built-in clustering and replication. By augmenting this solution with features that allow us a lot of flexibility in our managed hosting environment, and eventual integration with our Box Panel customer interface, we will be able to provide a highly available, highly flexible Memcached solution to all our customers. And all this at a lower overall cost to the customer.”

“Managed hosting and cloud services are the next platforms for Gear6 Web Cache,” said Joaquin Ruiz, Executive Vice President of Products at Gear6. “That is why we are excited to be working with Blue Box Group to develop interfaces and services into Gear6 Web Cache for hosted applications requiring Memcached. We are thrilled with the popularity and production use of Web Cache at the origin sites of leading social media companies. By integrating services that plug into managed hosting and cloud providers, many more sites will have affordable access to our scalable and persistent Memcached services.”

Availability

Blue Box Group will begin its private beta of these highly available Memcached services this week. Service availability for all Blue Box Group customers should be deployed by the end of May, with integration into Blue Box Group’s Box Panel interface following shortly thereafter.

About Blue Box Group

Blue Box Group is in the business of providing easy, affordable and reliable hosting solutions. They approach web hosting, virtual servers and dedicated servers differently. Blue Box Group knows web technology and scalable ruby on rails deployments, with experience in both small deployments on virtual servers, to large dedicated server clusters taking millions of hits a day. Blue Box Group has solutions to the rails hosting problems you’ll experience as you grow. To learn exactly how Blue Box Group can help your business grow online, visit http://www.BlueBoxGRP.com.

About Gear6

Gear6 is the first and leading provider of scalable Memcached solutions, enabling high-growth media, social networking and content aggregation web sites to deliver and scale dynamic applications and content. By focusing on the emerging need for a dedicated web caching tier, Gear6 solutions dramatically improve the scalability of web applications and databases, improving quality of service and reducing infrastructure cost. Gear6’s flagship offering is Gear6 Web Cache, a Memcached protocol-compliant solution that enables web site developers and operators to scale web services and applications, to save money, rack space, power and time, to protect users and sites from failures and traffic spikes, and to manage all aspects of caching operations. To learn more about Gear6 Web Cache, visit www.gear6.com.

Press contact:

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Hot off the presses, News For Rails Conf!

Posted about 1 year ago

Howdy!

It’s been a busy quarter for us at Blue Box Group. Beyond moving into our new office space in Tacoma, WA, we’ve been hard at work on our shared hosting product, building out our new Box Panel control panel, and designing our new branding. Check out our latest news below to get all the latest on what’s new!

New Look For Our Website!
We’ve recently redesigned our primary website in what is the first of a series of visual updates that we will be making across all our customer facing content. This is the first major step in our series of branding improvements that we hope will truly express the unique products and services we offer and make us a stand out in the crowd of hosting providers. We will continue to build out our site in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

New Product Offering – Shared Rails Hosting!
Just in time for Rails Conf, we’re happy to announce we now are offering Shared Rails Hosting using Mod_Rails under Apache. This is the final piece of the puzzle in our full spectrum of services, allowing us to provide affordable and reliable hosting to every potential customer. With an entry price of $9.99 / month, this Shared Hosting package allows people without the need for large virtual servers or dedicated servers to enjoy a high level of service. This product is still in beta, so there may be quirks.

Rails Conf Sponsorship!
Speaking of Rails Conf, we were again a sponsor of the event. We did forgo doing a booth this year. But don’t fret, we took that energy and poured it into the above releases. Either way, we’re proud to continue our tradition of giving back the community.

Blue Box Group CEO Jesse Proudman will be attending the Five Runs Happy Hour at Rails Conf Friday evening. Stop by and say hi, grab a business card and some swag, and collect a discount off our services.

First Day At Rails Conf

Posted over 2 years ago

The first round of sessions and exhibit hall carousing has been completed. We’ve been delighted to meet a number of our customers and other attendees of the show. We’ve got a ton of give aways and freebies to hand out, so if you haven’t stopped by yet, make sure you do so before the exhibit hall closes tomorrow. You can’t miss our glowing Blue sign.

We’ll have pictures up tonight, and a review of the sessions.

We’ve also posted up a new job on our careers board. Make sure you check it out!

- The Blue Box Gang

Going To Rails Conf!

Posted over 2 years ago

The whole Blue Box gang is packed up and ready to goto Rails Conf. We’re driving down to Portland in the morning and will be setting up our booth in the afternoon. We’ve got all kinds of giveaways and specials happening for the show, so make sure to stop by.

We’ll be posting pictures each night here of the highlights, so stay tuned!

We’re also hiring. Information will be available at the show and will be posted onto the site soon.