ADS specializes in using Ruby on Rails to build advanced, scalable, database-backed web sites for organizations of all sizes. Find out more at our website.

Atlantic Dominion Solutions partner RightScale has raised $4.5M from Benchmark Capital. RightScale’s management platform simplifies the deployment and management of applications utilizing Amazon Web Services, and adds additional capabilities like auto-scaling. The RightScale tools are an integral part of ADS Mantis for EC2, which provides 24×7 monitoring and management of EC2-based applications.

Read more about the funding RightScale received on c|net and Giga OM.

We’ve been doing Rails development at ADS for close to two-and-a-half years. When we launched our ADS Mantis service, it was to support our Rails development clients that wanted a fully managed EC2 deployment. We have been working with Amazon Web Services, specifically EC2, S3, and SQS, since they got out of private beta. Amazon Web Services are a core competency of Atlantic Dominion Solutions, and core to our business. As such, we are now happy to announce that we are extending ADS Mantis to cover any application deployed to Amazon EC2 using the RightScale platform.

So what does that mean for you? Regardless of your language of choice, if you are deploying onto EC2 using RightScale, then ADS Mantis can support you. You take care of your app, and we’ll work to ensure it stays up. Of course, if you are using Rails, then we can also help you tune the performance of your app as well.

For more information on ADS Mantis, visit our site.

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Introduction to AWS for Ruby Developers
Economical Use of S3 with Ruby on Rails
Using Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, Lucene, and Ruby for Web Spidering

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If you didn’t get a chance to see the live stream of the Ben and Fred of Standout Jobs doing their demo of Reception at DEMO, check out the video here. Standout Jobs is changing the way businesses recruit talent. They’ve already helped us grow our team, and I am sure they can help grow yours.

ADS Mantis client Standout Jobs, a startup in the recruiting and online job market space, came out of alpha today and launched Reception(TM), a “new employer branding and Web-based recruiting product.” We’ve been using Reception since its inception and have had great results in attracting awesome talent. We are excited for Standout Jobs to be officially launching at DEMO this week. They are shaking up online recruiting, taking it from a faceless process to real communication between employer and potential employee. Before submitting a resume you can see videos, blog postings, employee profiles, and photos and more content posted by the employer. The tools for employers are great too, including full look and feel customization, automatic job posting distribution, metrics and more. Visit the Standout Jobs site for all the details.

No Setup Fees When You Sign Up Before Feb. 1, 2008

To celebrate the launch of ADS Mantis, we are waiving the setup fee for all new customers who sign up before February 1st, 2008. Call ADS today at 321-274-4684 to take advantage of this offer.

New EC2™ Management Solution from Atlantic Dominion Solutions Offers 24×7 Service

WINTER PARK, FL (December 19, 2007)…Web development innovator Atlantic Dominion Solutions (ADS) today introduced the only continuous monitoring and management solution for Rails apps deployed onto Amazon EC2 – ADS Mantis. Businesses can now use EC2 to scale on demand and still get the consistent, reliable, and personal service previously limited to traditional hosting solutions.

ADS Mantis combines dedicated 24×7 service with powerful management and monitoring tools from RightScale and FiveRuns, themselves leaders in Ruby on Rails and Amazon Web Services technologies. The only solution of its kind, ADS Mantis minimizes downtime by continuously monitoring EC2-deployed Rails apps, thus enabling the ADS team to prevent and, when necessary, quickly respond to issues.

“Clients had been asking us a lot about ‘EC2 hosting’ but there was really no precedent for it,” said ADS Project Director, Robert Dempsey. “We realized there was a big need for EC2 management and ADS is uniquely suited to provide such a service.”

EC2, part of the Amazon Web Services, provides virtual hosting using Amazon’s infrastructure – allowing businesses to scale their web applications up or down on demand and pay only for the capacity they use. But the flexibility and cost savings derived from Amazon EC2 do not come with the service and support normally included in traditional web hosting packages. To maintain the consistency and reliability required for the success of their web applications, businesses have often needed to hire additional IT staff to monitor and manage their deployments. ADS Mantis allows these businesses to realize maximum uptime without taking up valuable developer bandwidth or incurring the excessive costs of in-house staff.

“Rightscale is delighted to help ADS enable one-stop, personalized management and support for Rails on EC2 ,” said Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, an ADS partner. “With their ADS Mantis offering, ADS helps to deliver on the promise of cloud computing by adding a layer of managed services on top of Rightscale’s ability to launch and manage multi-server deployments.”

ADS partner FiveRuns, provider of the monitoring tool employed in ADS Mantis, was thrilled to get on board with the innovation in EC2 management. Dean Cruse, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for FiveRuns, talked about the opportunities afforded by the new service.

“We see tremendous momentum for EC2 within the Rails community, particularly due to its ability to scale on demand,” said Cruse. “However, businesses need to ensure their applications are performing properly in order to optimize their EC2 experience. FiveRuns welcomes the ADS Mantis solution for EC2 management and monitoring and we’re excited to be a part of the initiative to help EC2 customers manage, monitor and scale their applications.”

Dempsey echoed those benefits, and reiterated that the foundation of ADS Mantis is reliable personal service.

“EC2 is a flexible, powerful foundation for a great Rails app, and I highly recommend it to our clients” said Dempsey. “But not everyone has the manpower to manage it. With ADS Mantis, everyone can get the dedicated personal service necessary for their deployment and relax knowing their app is well taken care of.”

ADS Mantis offers three service levels for different deployment sizes. The Basic option monitors up to four concurrent virtual servers; the Plus level provides for up to eight servers and includes two hours of other premier services; and the Premium level works with up to 12 servers and includes four hours of premier services. For more information about ADS Mantis, visit www.techcfl.com/ads-mantis.

About Atlantic Dominion Solutions

ADS is a leading-edge web development firm that specializes in using Ruby on Rails to build advanced, scalable, database-backed applications for organizations of all sizes. Based on custom requirements, ADS creates forward-thinking and user-focused applications that can be deployed quickly, scaled easily, and maintained with minimal time or effort. ADS is a vanguard in enhancing Rails platforms with Amazon Web Services and, along with visionary web applications, ADS also provides data warehousing and data mining, graphic and interactive design, and business and technical consulting. For more information, visit www.techcfl.com.