Three short talks. Three clear lessons: monitor what matters, automate the tedious, and migrate without stress.
Conversations Shaping Planet Argon's LIVE Webinar Series
4 Nov 2025
Entries tagged: hosting
How to Decommission Your Ruby on Rails Application
6 Apr 2023
Our mission at Planet Argon is to fight the big rewrite. There are a few scenarios when we believe a complete rewrite in a new technical stack is a good business decision. Yet, we have helped many organizations migrate from their custom Ruby on Rails applications to a new platform.
Puma is the Preferred Web Server for Rails Developers
2 Jun 2016
Puma’s popularity as both a web and Rails server has shown steady growth toward the position of preferred tool for both roles. Growing out of the once-mighty Mongrel, Puma hails itself as "A Modern, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby". Showing significantly lower memory usage and response times than Unicorn and Passenger the communities support appears to be continuing to shift in its direction.
How long have we all been working with Ruby on Rails?
1 Jun 2016
One of the questions we asked in the recent survey was "How many years have you been developing with Ruby on Rails?". The purpose of this question is to get a very general idea of the shift in experience across the community.
Rails Hosting Survey 2016
29 Mar 2016
The Rails Hosting Survey is back for the fourth time! This is your opportunity to share your thoughts with the community and gauge current trends in Rails hosting.
Happy Holidays, Engine Yard!
16 Dec 2014
Our friends at Engine Yard sent us a box of goodies. Happy Holidays!
Take the 2014 Ruby on Rails hosting survey
28 Mar 2014
It’s time to take the pulse of the Ruby on Rails hosting ecosystem again.