MoutainWest RubyConf 2008 Gold Sponsorship

Posted 6 months ago

Blue Box Group is proud to announce our gold sponsorship of MoutainWest RubyConf. It is our belief that these smaller localized conferences benefit the Ruby and Rails community greatly, and thus we are excited to be able to sponsor them. This is our second year sponsoring MoutainWest and we hope to see it continue to flourish.

Blue Box Group Appoints Stephen Balukoff as CTO

Posted 6 months ago

Tacoma, WA January 16th, 2007 – Blue Box Group, LLC, a provider of scalable ruby on rails hosting for businesses of all sizes is excited to announce the appointment of Stephen Balukoff to the role of Chief Technology Officer. Stephen comes to Blue Box Group with over 10 years’ experience working in the Information Technology industry. In previous roles, he has been a key engineer designing and implementing computer security, high-availability, and high-performance server and cluster solutions for both private and public organizations using a variety of hardware, operating systems, and other technologies. Most recently, Stephen joined Blue Box Group as a Senior Systems Administrator in October, and has been a driving force in the streamlining and optimization of numerous internal systems. In his free time, Stephen enjoys astronomy, fishing, computer games, and piloting small aircraft.

Under Stephen’s leadership, Blue Box Group expects to launch a flurry of new products and services designed to help businesses of all sizes deploy, manage and grow their online presences. Stephen will also be overseeing our existing technical staff and implementing systems and processes to maintain and improve network reliability, security and performance. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for additional announcements!

Eye Candy: Cluster Setup

Posted 6 months ago

Revel in its glory!

Many of our customers have been inquiring to see some pictures of a few of the larger clusters we’ve setup. We figured it was about time we followed through with our promises and posted something up. To the right is a picture of one of our racks. This particular rack houses clusters for five different websites. These clusters support 120 Meg bandwidth spikes for these particular sites.

At the top of the rack behind the blanking panels, you’ll find a pair of Cisco Gigabit switches acting as distribution for this cluster. Below that are the servers themselves. This rack holds application, NFS, Memcache and database servers for each of the sites. At the bottom of the rack, you’ll see a blade chassis that we’ve been testing for future deployments.

We’re excited to be working on some additional clustering technologies that will make this level of power available to every one. Stay tuned!

Be sure to check out a couple of the sites we host, if only to see the scale of sites we can work with: