Simplifying Code Pushes to a Multi-Stage Cluster with Capistrano and hAPI

December 14th, 2009

posted by Nathan Goulding

Since Voxel hosts some of the web’s most widely read, most highly trafficked websites, we run across (and thrive on) complex, multi-server, multi-stage deployments. This means that we’re continually trying to find the best way to automate releases into these environments. Recently, we were tasked with figuring out the best way to push code updates onto a large web cluster running a popular Ruby on Rails application. Here’s what we did:

Read the rest of this entry >>

Posted in General Posts | No Comments »

GigaOM Covers Launching of Voxel’s Silverlining Cloud Computing Offering

March 16th, 2009

posted by Zachary Smith

GigaOm.com, the preeminent technology blog, has posted on Voxel’s step into the world of cloud computing with our Silverlining Technology Preview. Read the story over at GigaOm.com.

Read the rest of this entry >>

Posted in Press | 5 Comments »

TheWhir Cover’s Voxel’s 2008 Year of Growth

January 14th, 2009

posted by Zachary Smith

TheWhir.com, the leading industry source for web hosting news, has published a story covering Voxel’s growth and customer wins during 2008.

“(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and content delivery network provider Voxel Dot Net (www.voxel.net) announced on Wednesday it saw a 72 percent increase in net income and a 63 percent increase in total revenue in 2008.

Founded in 1999, Voxel says it is the “only service provider to offer both hosting bandwidth and CDN service over its own backbone.” The company provides a range of services, including international CDN, data storage, IP circuits, managed hosting and infrastructure services.

The company had several customer wins in 2008, growing its customer base by 32 percent. Voxel expanded business with Perez Hilton and DailyKos, as well as signed new deals with New York Observer, Politicker.com, CBS’s “Rachel Ray Show”, Mochila, SourceForge.net, AmieStreet.com and AccuRadio.com.”

Read the full story here.

Read the rest of this entry >>

Posted in Press | No Comments »

InformationWeek says “…Politicker.com has ditched Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service in favor of Voxel dot Net’s managed Web hosting service.”

December 3rd, 2008

posted by Zachary Smith

John Foley of InformationWeek, has published an article detailing Politicker.com’s move from EC2 to Voxel to scale for its heavy election season.  Read the full article, titled Politicker.com Impeaches Amazon Web Services, online here.

Read the rest of this entry >>

Posted in General Posts, Press | No Comments »

{literal} {/literal}