One Click Launch, Deploy and Scale with SimpleDeployr

After many months of development, we're proud to announce the launch of SimpleDeployr, the easiest way to get your applications up and running on the AWS cloud. With one-click, SimpleDeployr will launch an Amazon EC2 server, configure the server, checkout your code and add the server to a load balancer so you can get your app up and live to the world in only a few minutes. After the initial setup, it's only one more click to launch more servers, or deploy your latest code across all servers.

Remember, this is all your AWS infrastructure, so you have full control over the environment, SimpleDeployr just makes it easier than ever. Customers are already figuring out how to use SimpleDeployr in ways we hadn't even thought of. The best part? It's free for a developer account.

Here are just a few of the things you can do with SimpleDeployr:

Manage Multiple Projects

Try SimpleDeployr our for every single one of your projects! Set up an environment for testing, staging, and production! Setup an environment for each one of your developers....

Visualize your infrastructure so you can see everything that's going on

The dashboard is where the action happens. At a glance monitoring of CPU usage and server statuses.

Easily manage all your servers.

The one on the left is happily running at 16% CPU usage, the one in the middle has been terminated and the one on the right is in the launch process. Once it completes, it will be added to the load balancer and start handling traffic.

One-Click Load Balancer Creation

No need to worry about your load balancer, we'll manage the attachment of servers to the load balancer so you don't have to.

One-Click Scaling

If your usage gets up to a certain threshold, just click Launch New Server to add another server to the pool and spread the load. And if you have too many servers, you can terminate them just as easily as you can launch them.

Developers can use SimpleDeployr for free so give it a try and let us know how we can make it better. Also, there's a demo app that you can use if you just want to kick the tires.

Get a development account today, free. Also, there's a demo app that you can use if you don't have your own Rails repo yet and want to kick the tires around.

SimpleDeployr: One-Click Launch, Deploy, and Scale!

We've Got an Exciting Announcement Coming Down the Pipe

I know we've been quiet around here for a while, but that's because we're days away from launching a new product and let me tell you, we're very excited about it! Stay tuned. 

 

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Client Update: Plaster Networks Launches Intelligent Powerline Networking Device

Plaster Networks just launched their brand new product offering ethernet over powerlines as well as remote diagnostics and network management through a central website. The beauty of the product is in it's simplicity, you just plug in a PLN3 Adapter (pictured right) to a wall socket and connect it to your Internet router. Then you plug in other adapters anywhere you need an ethernet connection and bam, you're networked. They use your existing electrical cabling to create an instant LAN and it works great. We've actually got these adapters all over our office for desktop computers, Xbox 360 and even to extend our wireless range by plugging in wireless routers to a PLN3 adapters on opposite sides of the office.

The big differentiator between the Plaster Networks Adapters and the competition is the a special processor chip that adds a ton of extra functionality and smarts to the adapter. Every customer can access a site where they can see get full visibility into their network performance, find ways to diagnose performance issues, and communicate with the adapters to do things like changing network configurations and what not. Very cool stuff. 


And did I mention it's way faster than wireless?


You can get more information and purchase their products here.

Here is the press release:


PLASTER NETWORKS DEBUTS INTELLIGENT POWERLINE SOLUTION FOR IN-HOME
MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING

Menlo Park, California - October 20, 2009 - Today, Plaster Networks
(www.plasternetworks.com) announced availability of a new networking
solution for delivering music, videos, and other multimedia content using
existing electrical wiring within the home. In response to the growth of
streaming video, IPTV, and over-the-top (OTT) applications, Plaster Networks
offers a reliable alternative to wireless networks, and is more
cost-effective than installing Ethernet cables in the walls.

Plaster Networks delivers the first solution that combines intelligent
powerline adapters with a web-based service for remotely managing and
configuring the home network. The Plaster Networks solution also includes
powerline isolators that can filter unwanted noise, improving network
reliability and performance.

"Home networks are quickly transitioning from computer applications such as
web surfing and e-mail to broadband entertainment applications including
video, music, and online gaming," said Jeff Scroggin, CEO of Plaster
Networks. "By integrating advanced management and configuration into the
Plaster Networks PLN3 adapters, our goal is to make powerline networking a
reliable solution that delivers uninterrupted broadband connectivity within
existing homes, without the expense of installing dedicated network cables."

Combined with Plaster Networks Service, the company's PLN3 powerline
adapters allow users to see the throughput capacity of their powerline
network instantly through a standard browser. The Service provides an easy
way to verify the status of the network. And in many cases the Service can
help identify where to install Plaster Networks isolators to optimize
performance.

Based on the HomePlug AV standard, Plaster Networks PLN3 powerline adapters
deliver up to 200Mbps PHY rates (with equivalent Ethernet rates reaching
100Mbps). HomePlug AV provides a convenient and cost effective method of
distributing multimedia content in the home without new wires.

"Plaster Networks brings a new level of functionality to powerline
networking by combining Intellon's 6400 IC HomePlug AV Chipset Solution with
a dedicated network processor for management and diagnostics," said Rick E.
Furtney, President and COO of Intellon Corporation. "We are delighted that
Plaster Networks selected our latest HomePlug AV chipset for this innovative
solution for delivering a reliable broadband network within the home."

Plaster Networks PLN3 Ethernet adapters are available in the U.S. through
the Plaster Networks website (www.plasternetworks.com) at $149.95 for a set
of two. For a limited time, Plaster Networks is offering one year's free
subscription to Plaster Networks Service (including software updates).

About the company: Plaster Networks enables simple, reliable networking over
existing wiring. The company develops advanced hardware and software
technologies for low-cost, high speed powerline networks in the home or
small office. Plaster Networks was founded by Paul Baran, a Silicon Valley
entrepreneur widely known as the inventor of packet switching, the
foundation technology for the Internet. For more information, please visit
www.plasternetworks.com.

TimeDroid for FreshBooks Time Tracking Now Available in the Android Market!

TimeDroid is a simple time tracking application for logging your time to your FreshBooks account. iPhone users have had an app like this for awhile now, but since some of us here at Appoxy are digging our Android phones better than the iPhone, we thought the world (and us) needed this app.

Grab it while it's hot!  Get TimeDroid Pro on the Android Market or TimeDroid Free.

Here is a screenshot:

Give it a try, let us know what you think and if you like, be sure to rate it 5 stars. ;)

TimeDroid Support Forum.

Client Update: Accurate Solar Power is Demoing the System we Built at Solar Power International

Accurate Solar Power is demoing a new system we built for them at the Solar Power International conference in Anaheim, California today through Thursday (Oct. 27 - 29, 2009).  If you're in the area, please go check it out!  Accurate Solar Power is offering the latest in solar power monitoring and management enabling customers to track, monitor and manage their solar power installations via the web.

Dashboard view of entire solar installation:

Live updating panel array view showing output of every panel in real time:

Details of a single panel and ability to send commands to the panels from the Internet:

This is an early alpha release, but we are very happy with the results so far and so is our client, Accurate Solar Power.

SimpleBackr for SimpleDB Now has Simple Restores

SimpleBackr now has restores! After you're backup is done and you receive your backup is complete email, you'll see a link on your backup report to "Restore from this backup".

Just click that, enter your destination SimpleDB credentials and start the restore process. That's it!

And like the backup process, restores are also free... as in free lunch.

All Our Gems Are Belong to Gemcutter

So after github left us all hanging out to dry, Gemcutter is quickly becoming it's replacement and apparently the future of gem hosting. After working with gemcutter a bit, I'm actually becoming quite fond of it. It's easy to use and you get instant gem publishing.

To start using gemcutter as a source, it only takes a couple seconds:

1. gem install gemcutter
2. gem tumble (this adds gemcutter to the top of your gem sources list)

Then you'll want to uninstall and reinstall old gems as it appears that gem update will still grab from rubyforge if they existed there and you'll want to remove all your github sourced gems.

Here are the new homes for our main Appoxy gems:

• Amazon Web Services Gem - gem install aws
• SimpleRecord Gem - gem install simple_record
• MiniFB Facebook API Gem - gem install mini_fb
• CloudCache Gem - gem install cloud_cache 
• LocalCache Gem - gem install local_cache

Alright, now hopefully Gemcutter sticks around for a while so we don't have to do this again.