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Union Station beta registration temporarily closed due to overwhelming success (aka capacity issues ;-))

Ninh Bui — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:26:25 +0000

After launching the public beta to Union Station yesterday afternoon, we saw sign ups ramp up fairly quickly. As we were nearing the 1000 beta user limit in a matter of hours, we noticed some very popular mainstream sites (you know who you are ) signing up for the beta as well. Due to this overwhelming success and the size of some of the monitored sites, we’ve been unable to accurately anticipate for the hardware requirements for this beta. Even though we’re thrilled to see so many exciting companies and individuals already making use of the beta of Union Station, it has unfortunately started to negatively affect the user experience for our beta testers as well. In particular, it appears the UI is not showing the most recent metrics for some of our beta testers as this data is still being processed in the background.

In our effort to get the best user experience for our beta testers, we’re looking into expanding our capacity and new hardware is already underway. In the mean time, we’ve unfortunately had to start temporarily disabling accounts until we get the new hardware in place and set up to move over those accounts.

This also means that we’re unfortunately not able to accept new Union Station beta registrations for the time being. We’re working around the clock however to fix this and would like to offer you our apologies for this (temporary) inconvenience. Please bear with us!

For further updates on Union Station, please consider following @unionstationapp on twitter as well.

Passenger Prefpane Update

Ninh Bui — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:08:18 +0000

Passenger Preference Pane provides a convenient GUI for OSX users to deploy their webapps with Phusion Passenger. However, some updates in Mac OS X Snow Leopard caused Passenger Preference Pane to stop working correctly. Thankfully, Alloy was quick to address these. Go check it out.

Blog downtime

Hongli Lai — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:46:49 +0000

Because of an issue with our (now former) hosting provider, our blog and several of our websites had been down for more than a day. We were able to restore the blog posts, but unfortunately we lost several weeks worth of blog comments.

Our apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

wiki.rubyonrails.org now running on Phusion Passenger

Hongli Lai — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:56:26 +0000

Just in case you haven’t noticed yet, http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/ is now running Phusion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition. We migrated them a few days ago, and other than a MySQL failure yesterday, it had been rock solid ever since. People have complained about wiki.rubyonrails.org being down often, but the uptime should be a lot better now.

Just finished our talk at Ruby en Rails

Ninh Bui — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:13:01 +0000

Man, hardest talk ever, glad it went okay, now I can head off to bed… soon
For those of you guys that didn’t have the chance to attend Ruby en Rails 2008, we’ve taken the liberty of uploading our presentation files.

PDF Version
SWF Version (with toned down animations)

Getting back to Charles Nutter’s talk now

3/5th of Phusion at Apple

Ninh Bui — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:50:24 +0000

Today, we were invited by Laurent Sansonetti of Apple to visit them over there. Needless to say, IT, WAS, AWESOME! Laurent is an awesome guy, and we had a lot of fun hanging out with him and Thomas, so if you’re reading this, we’re looking forward to meeting up with you guys soon again!

Pictures probably say more than words, so see below.

More to come in the following days, as we’re currently heading off to bed.

Cheers,
Hongli Lai
Tinco Andringa
Ninh Bui

P.S. Yes, I’m aware of the fact that the thumbs up thing is going to become my trademark Just be happy that you haven’t seen a thumbs down yet

Phusion Passenger and Dreamhost

Ninh Bui — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:26:07 +0000

Hi guys (and girls),

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably gotten the lowdown on Phusion Passenger being used by Dreamhost. Needless to say, we’re thrilled about the number of people now being able to painlessly deploy their applications using Phusion Passenger. However, we’d like to take this opportunity to clear a few things up.

Firstly, we’ve received a lot of questions of you guys on if Dreamhost is sponsoring the development of Passenger or have financially compensated us for the support that we’ve provided. The answer to this question is no, instead, they’ve done something that we believe was just as important for us as developers: test our product in a large, live shared hosting environment. Fortunately, you guys seem to have been more than favorable in testing Phusion Passenger and through your feedback, allowed us to streamline our solution to deployment even more. Thank you for this!

Secondly, we’d like to reiterate that the support forums of Phusion Passenger are SOLELY for Phusion Passenger. We’ve received a fair amount of questions that were related to Dreamhost as well, and we’d like to kindly redirect those people to Dreamhost’s support department.

By now, you should have probably already inferred that commercial support isn’t something that is going to ensure Phusion Passenger’s future development alone as it seems little to no support is required for a product that is pretty much self explanatory and which already enjoys excellent community support: hmmm, maybe we should remove the forums and installer in a future version

All kidding aside though, what is going to ensure Phusion Passenger’s future development is the people who develop and use it, both of which you guys can help out with by donating time and effort. From this, it should become apparent that we’re grateful for any kind of donation you can come up with in supporting Phusion Passenger. This includes feedback, patches and of course, monetary donations (but only do this if you think the product is worth it).

The latter perhaps requires a little bit more elaboration. A common misconception seems to be that open source is entirely “free of charge”, but we think this only holds true for someone if he or she decides it should be so. Open source is being paid for in terms of time and effort, and from our side, as a company, that translates to allocating human resources for development and support. Needless to say, this also translates to finances and we’ve done a fair amount of this in the past and will continue to do so in the future, but are also dependent of your efforts in this as well!

Thanks for the love people!

Cheers,
Hongli Lai
Ninh Bui

“Rails escapes the Ghetto”

Ninh Bui — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:29:37 +0000

Dreamhost is now officially on Phusion Passenger or as some people have put it, “Rails escapes the Ghetto”.

Please help us with modding/digging these up.

Super premium limited Phusion t-shirts!!!

Ninh Bui — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:23:18 +0000

Silkscreen printed on 210 grams super premium shirts… only 60 of 100 left people! More info about acquiring one of these bad boys will follow soon

Phusion/Passenger interview by AkitaOnRails

Hongli Lai — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:07:42 +0000

AkitaOnRails had recently interviewed us. The interview covers our company’s background and information about Passenger, among other things. He asked us quite some interesting questions, so we recommend you to read the interview.