May 29, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source management solutions provider FiveRuns (fiveruns.com), which builds solutions serving the Rails developer community, announced on Thursday that its Rails Application Management Partner program has expanded with new partners and the availability of FiveRuns Manage 2.0.
Last year, FiveRuns introduced the RAMP program, whose partners now include Ruby on Rails web hosts and development organizations such as HostingRails, SpeedyRails, Atlantic Dominion Solutions, Blue Box Group, BrightBox, e-accent, ELC Technologies, RailsWare and Ayoka Systems.
“With FiveRuns Manage 2.0, hosters and developers now have a complete monitoring offering for their Rails customers,” says Todd Barr, VP of business development at FiveRuns. “Manage 2.0 doesn’t stop at the Rails application – it monitors the entire application cluster, including the web server, database and OS, to get a complete view of your Rails application performance. You no longer have to patch together scripting tools and point solutions to monitor your Rails environment.”
Version 2.0 enhances the previous version of FiveRuns Manage, which was released last year. The new version is more simplified, has monitoring support for more subsystems and includes new features based on feedback from customers and partners.
As “the only complete monitoring functionality for managing the performance of Ruby on Rails applications and the environment on which they run,” FiveRuns Manage offers many benefits for Rails web hosts and development organizations.
Manage 2.0 enables proactive alerts of potential issues before they affect your customers through customizable event triggers, visibility across the entire software stack, simplified troubleshooting and forensics.
FiveRuns RAMP program includes pricing and service offerings for all types of web hosts and Rails development organizations. It includes aggressive reselling margins, with flexible slice pricing for managed web hosts, free internal usage of Manage 2.0 for hosters and developers, the ability to offer free FiveRuns product links and 30-day trials to customers, referral fees for Rails developers and hosters who refer directly to FiveRuns, profiles and links on the FiveRuns website partner pages and no up-front sales commitments.
