Migrating to EngineYard’s Flex
— September 1 2009
Teambox’s servers have been upgraded to EngineYard’s Flex, a very exciting hosting product for Ruby on Rails.
Flex and EngineYard’s friendly and responsive staff made it easy for us to migrate from the old server. The whole migration took 25 minutes, and the site was down to avoid data loss.
The package includes features to make scaling easier, multiple environments to test apps before deploying to production, monitoring, and it’s been specially important for us for its integration with Amazon Web Services for cloud computing and storage.
We hope you’ll enjoy these snappier servers! During the next days, we’ll start taking advantage of the possibilities that Flex offers, like mounting Amazon S3 for local access. This means that, in the following weeks, files will be accessible as http://www.teamboxapp.com/files/something.png
These changes will affect Teambox community release, which will use only normal file uploads instead of Amazon’s S3. This way, it’ll be easier to install and maintain your local copy of Teambox!
