Robby on Rails: PLANET ARGON 2.0 Release Candidatethoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect tag:www.robbyonrails.com,2005:TypoTypo2006-09-05T22:12:43-04:00Robby Russellurn:uuid:6d1d45e546da9efabf532ac4e842a9d12005-10-25T13:10:00-04:002006-09-05T22:12:43-04:00PLANET ARGON 2.0 Release Candidate<p>We finally found a way to sneak in some extra time to finish up the first phase of our new website. Allison and I are excited to announce the launch of <strong>new</strong> PLANET <span class="caps">ARGON</span> website, <a href="http://www.planetargon.com">www.planetargon.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>What Powers It?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Ruby on Rails</a> and <a href="http://www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL</a>!</p>
<p><strong>What Has Changed?</strong></p>
<p>For starters, we have a new design. Hopefully the information that you are seeking is easier to navigate to and the order process is a bit easier too. Aside from that, we’ve made just minor changes to our hosting offerings to reflect the needs of our customers. I’ll touch on that shortly.</p>
<p><strong>ReEmphasize The Small Stuff</strong></p>
<p>We first started offering Rails hosting to the public at the beginning of February. In just a week we’ll have nine full months of experience under our belts. Our customers have been a huge influence on the type of services we offer, and the level of support that comes with it. It was out of my own desire to have a web host that allowed for bleeding-edge technology that lead me to start my own hosting company… so that I could turn around and offer other developers, like myself, the same service, without the time commitment of managing your own server and the price tag that goes along with it.</p>
<p><strong>Our Customers are Awesome!</strong></p>
<p>No really, they are. We recently setup an <span class="caps">RSS</span> aggregator of some of our hosting customers that run blogs (many of them are running Typo). We call this site, <a href="http://inhabitants.planetargon.com">Inhabitants of <span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span></a>. (<a href="http://inhabitants.planetargon.com">inhabitants.planetargon.com</a>) Check it out!</p>
<p><strong>More Space!</strong></p>
<p>We’ve spent some time really looking over our hosting plans and wanted to give them a make-over that reflects the requests of our customers and potential customers. We’ve increased the disk space on the first three of our shared-hosting plans, and lowered the price on the fourth. <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/hosting.html">Take a peek</a>.</p>
<p>Some of our prices have gone up (with the increase in disk space), but our Level 1 plan <strong>still</strong> starts as low as $11.25/month. This can get you rolling on Rails using PostgreSQL and/or MySQL! :-)</p>
<p><strong>Typo Hosting</strong></p>
<p>We started offering affordable blog hosting last year. Then Typo took off, and none of the other blog software packages were being requested! We have <strong>dropped</strong> all the <span class="caps">PHP</span> blogging applications from our offerings and are now offering <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/typo_hosting.html">Typo Hosting</a> exclusively. For $3/month, you can have your own pre-installed Typo blog!</p>
<p><strong><span class="caps">FREE RAILS HOSTING</span>!</strong></p>
<p>Well, sort of. If you sign up by midnight (PST) on October 31st, you will receive <strong>1 <span class="caps">FREE</span> Month</strong> for every 6 month account and 2* <span class="caps">FREE</span> Months* for every year! (Blogs too)</p>
<p><strong>We’re Not Just a Hosting Company</strong></p>
<p><span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span> was started as a web <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/development.html">development</a> and <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/consulting.html">consulting</a> company, and it still is!</p>
<p><strong>Who Is Allison?</strong></p>
<p>Allison is the Creative Director here at <span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span>. Existing customers of ours know about her… but she’s kept a low profile up until now. She is a ninja in the ways of project management, clean design, and has been known to have a tab open in her browser to the Ruby on Rails <span class="caps">API</span>. Expect to hear more from (and about) her in the near future.</p>
<p>For more information, see: <a href="http://www.planetargon.com">http://www.planetargon.com</a></p><p>We finally found a way to sneak in some extra time to finish up the first phase of our new website. Allison and I are excited to announce the launch of <strong>new</strong> PLANET <span class="caps">ARGON</span> website, <a href="http://www.planetargon.com">www.planetargon.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>What Powers It?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Ruby on Rails</a> and <a href="http://www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL</a>!</p>
<p><strong>What Has Changed?</strong></p>
<p>For starters, we have a new design. Hopefully the information that you are seeking is easier to navigate to and the order process is a bit easier too. Aside from that, we’ve made just minor changes to our hosting offerings to reflect the needs of our customers. I’ll touch on that shortly.</p>
<p><strong>ReEmphasize The Small Stuff</strong></p>
<p>We first started offering Rails hosting to the public at the beginning of February. In just a week we’ll have nine full months of experience under our belts. Our customers have been a huge influence on the type of services we offer, and the level of support that comes with it. It was out of my own desire to have a web host that allowed for bleeding-edge technology that lead me to start my own hosting company… so that I could turn around and offer other developers, like myself, the same service, without the time commitment of managing your own server and the price tag that goes along with it.</p>
<p><strong>Our Customers are Awesome!</strong></p>
<p>No really, they are. We recently setup an <span class="caps">RSS</span> aggregator of some of our hosting customers that run blogs (many of them are running Typo). We call this site, <a href="http://inhabitants.planetargon.com">Inhabitants of <span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span></a>. (<a href="http://inhabitants.planetargon.com">inhabitants.planetargon.com</a>) Check it out!</p>
<p><strong>More Space!</strong></p>
<p>We’ve spent some time really looking over our hosting plans and wanted to give them a make-over that reflects the requests of our customers and potential customers. We’ve increased the disk space on the first three of our shared-hosting plans, and lowered the price on the fourth. <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/hosting.html">Take a peek</a>.</p>
<p>Some of our prices have gone up (with the increase in disk space), but our Level 1 plan <strong>still</strong> starts as low as $11.25/month. This can get you rolling on Rails using PostgreSQL and/or MySQL! :-)</p>
<p><strong>Typo Hosting</strong></p>
<p>We started offering affordable blog hosting last year. Then Typo took off, and none of the other blog software packages were being requested! We have <strong>dropped</strong> all the <span class="caps">PHP</span> blogging applications from our offerings and are now offering <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/typo_hosting.html">Typo Hosting</a> exclusively. For $3/month, you can have your own pre-installed Typo blog!</p>
<p><strong><span class="caps">FREE RAILS HOSTING</span>!</strong></p>
<p>Well, sort of. If you sign up by midnight (PST) on October 31st, you will receive <strong>1 <span class="caps">FREE</span> Month</strong> for every 6 month account and 2* <span class="caps">FREE</span> Months* for every year! (Blogs too)</p>
<p><strong>We’re Not Just a Hosting Company</strong></p>
<p><span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span> was started as a web <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/development.html">development</a> and <a href="http://www.planetargon.com/consulting.html">consulting</a> company, and it still is!</p>
<p><strong>Who Is Allison?</strong></p>
<p>Allison is the Creative Director here at <span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span>. Existing customers of ours know about her… but she’s kept a low profile up until now. She is a ninja in the ways of project management, clean design, and has been known to have a tab open in her browser to the Ruby on Rails <span class="caps">API</span>. Expect to hear more from (and about) her in the near future.</p>
<p>For more information, see: <a href="http://www.planetargon.com">http://www.planetargon.com</a></p>