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What is PLANET ARGON?
PLANET ARGON is a "full stack" Ruby on Rails web application design, development, consulting and hosting firm.
We craft experiences!
Who is PLANET ARGON?
The core team consists of
Robby Russell, Founder & Executive Director,
Allison Beckwith, Co-Founder & Experience Director,
Gary Blessington, Design and Development Director,
Chris Griffin, User Interface Designer,
Paige Saez, Interaction Designer,
Graeme Nelson, Lead Architect,
Andy Delcambre, Developer,
Daniel Johnson, Systems Administrator,
Alex Malinovich, Systems Administrator, and
Melissa Severini, Office Coordinator.
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Where is PLANET ARGON?
Located in the beautiful downtown Portland, Oregon Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood.
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Hosting
Rails Boxcar
It's finally here! After several months of planning and testing, we've launched our exciting new hosting service for Ruby on Rails applications. Sign up and get your new Boxcar today!
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Rails Boxcar
Private Boxcar (XEN instance)
10 GB of Disk Space
256MB Dedicated RAM
200 GB Bandwidth
Pre-configured for Rails deployment
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
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Boxcar is a pre-configured virtual server for hosting your business-level Rails applications, was developed out of our observations of how our Rails hosting customers are deploying their applications. Boxcar was designed to support the best-practices for Rails deployment.
Unlike a typical VPS, we’ve pre-configured Boxcar to allow you to follow just a few steps to get your Rails application up and running as quickly as possible. We’ve also given you more control over your environment to install additional packages, gems, and programs.
We don’t want your Boxcar to box you in… except when you want it to.
Boxcar will provide you with more privacy. Your application will be completely separate from other customers’ applications. You will also get excellent performance as you will not be competing for memory usage or disk space with other customers, which leads to more stability for your application.
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Rails Business Level 1
$500.00
Just $83.33
per month!
$900.00
Just $75.00
per month!
5 GB of Disk Space
200 GB Bandwidth
Unlimited Unique Domains/Sub-Domains
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
Money Back Guarantee!
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Server Information
Our shared-servers are running on Linux, Apache 2.x, Lighttpd (upon request), Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL 4.1.9, PostgreSQL 7.4.x or 7.3.x. PostgreSQL 8.0 now available! (We can host any version of PostgreSQL for you over 7.2.x)
Databases
We allow unlimited PostgreSQL databases in your own database environment. (You get your own ports for your databases). Remote access for database is available for your databases upon request.
Email
IMAP (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora compatible)
Webmail Access (Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape/Mozilla compatible)
- Supported Languages
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP 5.0.x
- mod_perl
- mod_python
- Jakarta Struts
- Email Features
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Server
- Mailing Lists
- Webmail
- Spam Assassin
- Catch All Accounts
- Other Features
- Web Stats (Awstats)
- Private CGI-BIN
- CVS
- Subversion
- Sub-Domains/Domains
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Rails Business Level 2
$650.00
Just $108.33
per month!
$1,200.00
Just $100.00
per month!
5 GB of Disk Space
300 GB Bandwidth
Unlimited Unique Domains/Sub-Domains
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
Money Back Guarantee!
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Server Information
Our shared-servers are running on Linux, Apache 2.x, Lighttpd (upon request), Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL 4.1.9, PostgreSQL 7.4.x or 7.3.x. PostgreSQL 8.0 now available! (We can host any version of PostgreSQL for you over 7.2.x)
Databases
We allow unlimited PostgreSQL databases in your own database environment. (You get your own ports for your databases). Remote access for database is available for your databases upon request.
Email
IMAP (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora compatible)
Webmail Access (Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape/Mozilla compatible)
- Supported Languages
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP 5.0.x
- mod_perl
- Email Features
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Server
- Mailing Lists
- Webmail
- Spam Assassin
- Catch All Accounts
- Other Features
- Web Stats (Awstats)
- Private CGI-BIN
- CVS
- Subversion
- Sub-Domains/Domains
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Rails Business Level 3
$800.00
Just $133.33
per month!
$1,500.00
Just $125.00
per month!
10 GB of Disk Space
400 GB Bandwidth
Unlimited Unique Domains/Sub-Domains
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
Money Back Guarantee!
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Server Information
Our shared-servers are running on Linux, Apache 2.x, Lighttpd (upon request), Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL 4.1.9, PostgreSQL 7.4.x or 7.3.x. PostgreSQL 8.0 now available! (We can host any version of PostgreSQL for you over 7.2.x)
Databases
We allow unlimited PostgreSQL databases in your own database environment. (You get your own ports for your databases). Remote access for database is available for your databases upon request.
Email
IMAP (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora compatible)
Webmail Access (Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape/Mozilla compatible)
- Supported Languages
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP 5.0.x
- mod_perl
- Email Features
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Server
- Mailing Lists
- Webmail
- Spam Assassin
- Catch All Accounts
- Other Features
- Web Stats (Awstats)
- Private CGI-BIN
- CVS
- Subversion
- Sub-Domains/Domains
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Shared Level 1
$80.00
Just $13.33
per month!
$135.00
Just $11.25
per month!
500 MB of Disk Space
15 GB Bandwidth
10 Unique Domains/Sub-Domains
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
Money Back Guarantee!
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Server Information
Our shared-servers are running on Linux, Apache 2.x, Lighttpd (upon request), Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL 4.1.9, PostgreSQL 7.4.x or 7.3.x. PostgreSQL 8.0 now available! (We can host any version of PostgreSQL for you over 7.2.x)
Databases
We allow unlimited PostgreSQL databases in your own database environment. (You get your own ports for your databases). Remote access for database is available for your databases upon request.
Email
IMAP (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora compatible)
Webmail Access (Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape/Mozilla compatible)
- Supported Languages
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP 5.0.x
- mod_perl
- Email Features
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Server
- Mailing Lists
- Webmail
- Spam Assassin
- Catch All Accounts
- Other Features
- Web Stats (Awstats)
- Private CGI-BIN
- CVS
- Subversion
- Sub-Domains/Domains
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Shared Level 2
$140.00
Just $23.33
per month!
$250.00
Just $20.83
per month!
1 GB of Disk Space
30 GB Bandwidth
20 Unique Domains/Sub-Domains
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
Money Back Guarantee!
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Server Information
Our shared-servers are running on Linux, Apache 2.x, Lighttpd (upon request), Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL 4.1.9, PostgreSQL 7.4.x or 7.3.x. PostgreSQL 8.0 now available! (We can host any version of PostgreSQL for you over 7.2.x)
Databases
We allow unlimited PostgreSQL databases in your own database environment. (You get your own ports for your databases). Remote access for database is available for your databases upon request.
Email
IMAP (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora compatible)
Webmail Access (Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape/Mozilla compatible)
- Supported Languages
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP 5.0.x
- mod_perl
- mod_python
- Jakarta Struts
- Email Features
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Server
- Mailing Lists
- Webmail
- Spam Assassin
- Catch All Accounts
- Other Features
- Web Stats (Awstats)
- Private CGI-BIN
- CVS
- Subversion
- Sub-Domains/Domains
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Shared Level 3
$210.00
Just $35.00
per month!
$365.00
Just $30.42
per month!
1.5 GB of Disk Space
50 GB Bandwidth
30 Unique Domains/Sub-Domains
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
Money Back Guarantee!
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Server Information
Our shared-servers are running on Linux, Apache 2.x, Lighttpd (upon request), Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL 4.1.9, PostgreSQL 7.4.x or 7.3.x. PostgreSQL 8.0 now available! (We can host any version of PostgreSQL for you over 7.2.x)
Databases
We allow for unlimited PostgreSQL databases in your own database environment. (You get your own ports for your databases). Remote access for database is available for your databases upon request.
Email
IMAP (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora compatible)
Webmail Access (Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape/Mozilla compatible)
- Supported Languages
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP 4.3.x
- PHP 5.0.x
- mod_perl
- mod_python
- Jakarta Struts
- Email Features
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Server
- Mailing Lists
- Webmail
- Spam Assassin
- Catch All Accounts
- Other Features
- Web Stats (Awstats)
- Private CGI-BIN
- CVS
- Subversion
- Sub-Domains/Domains
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Shared Level 4
$285.00
Just $47.50
per month!
$480.00
Just $40.00
per month!
2 GB of Disk Space
125 GB Bandwidth
40 Unique Domains/Sub-Domains
Free Set-up & a 30-Day
Money Back Guarantee!
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Server Information
Our shared-servers are running on Linux, Apache 2.x, Lighttpd (upon request), Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL 4.1.9, PostgreSQL 7.4.x or 7.3.x. PostgreSQL 8.0 now available! (We can host any version of PostgreSQL for you over 7.2.x)
Databases
We allow for unlimited PostgreSQL databases in your own database environment. (You get your own ports for your databases). Remote access for database is available for your databases upon request.
Email
IMAP (Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, Eudora compatible)
Webmail Access (Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape/Mozilla compatible)
- Supported Languages
- Ruby on Rails
- PHP 5.0.x
- mod_perl
- mod_python
- Jakarta Struts
- Email Features
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Server
- Mailing Lists
- Webmail
- Spam Assassin
- Catch All Accounts
- Other Features
- Web Stats (Awstats)
- Private CGI-BIN
- CVS
- Subversion
- Sub-Domains/Domains
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