Due to the increasing popularity of Ruby on Rails, Engine Yard is gaining popularity as a host for RoR apps. This growth has gotten the attention of Benchmark Capital, who has invested $3.5 million in the hosting site.

Engine Yard provides 24/7 service for your RoR apps at a cost of over $300 a month. While some find this a bit pricey, Engine Yard basically acts as a full-time system administrator, which is very helpful for smaller operations. Their high ratio of employees to clients and their service reputation is very good.

Scalability is often a complaint about Ruby on Rails, but Engine Yard claims to respond quickly to traffic spikes and add slices as businesses grow.

Engine Yard is also the center of two other projects, Rubinius and Merb. Rubinius is a virtual machine for Ruby. Merb is an MVC framework created to be more agile than Ruby on Rails.

Story via Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch

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