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New Virtual Hosting Solution Designed Specifically for Rails Applications Delivers 99.9% Uptime

WINTER PARK, FL (March 27, 2008)…Web development innovator Atlantic Dominion Solutions (ADS) today announced the introduction of a fully managed hosting solution designed specifically for Ruby on Rails deployments – ADS Mantis Hosting. Intended to provide the reliable stability and support lacking from some other virtual hosting options, the service provides complete hosting capabilities for Rails applications on virtual servers that ADS customizes to meet the unique needs of each application.

“We were hearing from a lot of people that they were frustrated by the instability of their virtual hosting service,” said ADS Project Director, Robert Dempsey. “It doesn’t matter how great your web app is if it’s down. So we set out to solve the problem ourselves, by delivering the flexibility and scalability of virtual hosting without the uncertainty around downtime, and with the added benefit of full support and management. I think ADS Mantis Hosting is well equipped to achieve that objective.”

To help reach that goal, ADS partnered with Rails Machine for its high-quality hardware and network infrastructure. The combination of fully managed hosting from ADS and a reliable Rails Machine platform allows ADS Mantis Hosting to deliver 99.9% uptime and guarantee system resources are available whenever the application needs them.

“Partnering with Rails Machine allowed us to give our clients the reliability of rock-solid, proven hosting,” said Dempsey. “Their solutions are extremely efficient and provide the consistent uptime and stability needed to ensure peak performance for our clients’ Rails apps.”

Rails Machine’s CTO Dan Benjamin echoed Dempsey’s enthusiasm and saw the partnership as a great opportunity to collaborate with other forward-thinking developers to come up with solutions that benefit everyone using Ruby on Rails.

“We’re excited about partnering with a leading development company like ADS,” said Dan Benjamin, Rails Machine CTO. “ADS Mantis Hosting really takes advantage of our infrastructure to deliver our common goal - to make Ruby on Rails faster and easier to deploy.”

Ultimately, Dempsey sees ADS Mantis Hosting allowing organizations to maintain sophisticated web applications without any significant commitment of time and resources, allowing them to focus solely on their core business.

“The scalability offered by virtual hosting is obviously fantastic,” said Dempsey. “But at the end of the day what’s most important is performance and reliability, and it can be hard to find internal resources to dedicate to monitoring and managing your application. With ADS Mantis Hosting, our clients can have us do all the work for them and not waste a second worrying about the status of their web app.”

ADS Mantis Hosting is available for all Ruby on Rails deployments. For more information about ADS Mantis Hosting, visit http://www.techcfl.com/ads-mantis-hosting.

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.

About Rails Machine

Rails Machine provides web hosting, software, and support for commercial Ruby on Rails application deployments. Its principal clients are professional Ruby on Rails developers using pre-configured servers featuring high quality hardware and network infrastructure. They also offer server configuration tools for simple and high quality solutions for deploying applications in either hosted or internal corporate environments. For additional information, please visit www.railsmachine.com.

Atlantic Dominion Solutions is happy to announce that Justin Blake has joined the ADS CREW. Justin brings more than two years of Rails development experience. Learn all about Justin on the ADS CREW page.

Atlantic Dominion Solutions is proud to be a silver sponsor of RailsConf 2008. As a silver sponsor we will have a booth, and a 45 minute presentation in the Products and Services track. We look forward to seeing everyone there, and perhaps having an announcement or two.

We are happy to announce that Tom Hunter will be joining the ADS team as a web applications developer. Tom will be moving to Orlando in December and thrown to the wolves. Happy holidays for all! Here’s the 411 on Tom:

Originally from Atlanta, Tom graduated Georgia Tech in 2005 and has spent the past two years developing web applications in Java, ColdFusion, and Ruby on Rails. He is very excited about moving to Orlando and continuing to work with Ruby on Rails at ADS. Tom brings a business-oriented approach towards development and is dedicated to improving product usability and maintaining a quality software process. When he is not working busy on Ruby on Rails projects, Tom enjoys dabbling in online marketing, playing ping-pong and billiards, and cruising around in his mustang.

Happy Thanksgiving to all from the ADS team. We will be closing at noon today (Wednesday) and be back in full swing Monday morning. Have a great holiday.

ADS client socialmarkets is proud to announce that socialmarkets.org has launched! Donors will now be to able to give smartly to charity because charities are now able to report the good they do through an innovative Web-based interface. By matching nonprofits that have excellent outcomes and discerning donors who want to see their money used wisely and effectively, socialmarkets is forwarding the cause of Web-based philanthropy. socialmarkets did not do this alone. “With the help of Ruby on Rails development shop, Atlantic Dominion Solutions, we were able to develop, test and deploy an alpha release in only three months,” said Allan Benamer, Executive Director of socialmarkets.

Users wasted no time getting down to business. About 30 minutes after the early launch of the site, they started signing up.

ADS client TickerMine officially launched their site today. TickerMine is a service designed for financial professionals that provides real time proprietary data streams. Read all about this great new service on the ADS site.

socialmarkets, an ADS client, is being featured on Marketplace on NPR today.

socialmarkets is building the foundation for a true social capital marketplace. This is only possible through the measurement of both social good and the risk involved in its creation; and this is only possible with the cooperation of both those who create social good and those who invest in them. “I started this almost a year ago now” said Allan Benamer, Executive Director of socialmarkets. “Besides my marriage, it’s the greatest experience of my life. We are crazy in that we’re trying to reform the nonprofit sector but it’s important to try. I couldn’t even have gotten this far without my business partner, Jeff Tuller, believing in the idea and funding the project. However, the experience of working with Robert Dempsey and Matt Elhotiby over at ADS has made it that much better. They give our organization added agility that’s hard to have when you’re as small as we are.” The launch of the new socialmarkets.org site is planned for November 21st, so stay tuned.

ADS Partner FiveRuns announced on Monday that they secured $6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures. In addition to the cash infusion they announced additions to their management team and Rails Application Management Partner (RAMP) program. ADS is proud to be a RAMP partner. Here’s an excerpt from the release:

One of the partners announced today, Atlantic Dominion Solutions (www.techcfl.com), is a premier web development firm that specializes in using Ruby on Rails to build advanced, scalable, database-backed applications for organizations of all sizes. “We are excited to be working with FiveRuns to integrate their Rails monitoring products into the applications we are building for our customers,” said Robert Dempsey, Project Director at ADS. “FiveRuns is a perfect complement to our focus on building applications that solve real business problems and give our customers an edge.”

Read the entire FiveRuns press release on their site.

ADS is happy to announce that Jeremy McAnally has joined the ADS team. For those of you who don’t know Jeremy, here is some insight:

Jeremy has been developing applications with Ruby and Rails for a little over two years. Before that, he tortured himself with PHP, C#, Python, VB, and other instruments of destruction. After finding the light, he worked with Ruby for a while and penned Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book (soon to be published by No Starch). Since then he has continued writing software, books (such as Ruby in Practice for Manning), open-source code (such as dcov, radiograph, valimaticotron, pircy, and more), has done presentations for numerous Ruby conferences and user groups, and basically anything else he can to sharpen his Ruby (and Rails)-Fu. He likes good food, good times, and a mean game of Mario Hoops 3-on-3.

We are, as you can imagine, extremely happy and excited to have Jeremy join the team.