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August 13, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Spiral Hosting (spiralhosting.com) announced on Monday it is now offering Ruby on Rails hosting, which is available immediately to all new and existing Web hosting clients. "Spiral Hosting are delighted to include Ruby on Rails at no extra cost on all our web hosting and reseller hosting packages," says Peter Armstrong, director of the Irish HSP "We are delivering leading technology solutions through our high performance servers and feature-rich hosting packages."
Ruby on Rails is an innovative and powerful development framework that enables users to create applications like blogs, forums, online communities, e-commerce and other projects using less code and minimal configuration.
Rails is targeted at Web developers who wish to produce content-rich applications quickly and easily. Ruby on Rails and Ruby Gems is available on all Spiral Hosting Linux-based servers. Customers will find a new section on Ruby Gems in their hosting control panel.
Read Back Issues of WHIR Magazine
October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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