# Deployment Consultation?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-consultation/92056>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 15, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-consultation/92056 "2007-04-15T14:39:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![al-evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@al-evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/al-evans)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-consultation/92056/1 "2007-04-15T14:39:00Z")

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I’m looking for someone who has hands-on experience with the deployment  
of a large-scale Rails app, and who can act as a consultant for some  
hours or days.

My personal experience extends to configuring servers to do what I want,  
successfully deploying stable Rails apps to them via Capistrano, and  
keeping everything happy and working in ahared-hosting, VPS, and  
dedicated-server environments. But my “journeyman” knowledge and limited  
experience may not be sufficient here.

The project in question is very database and memory intensive, with a  
potentially huge tree of users. We want to plan our growth path.  
Experience in server selection, setup, capistrano deployment,  
benchmarking, splitting applications and databases across multiple  
servers, performance monitoring, all that stuff. I want an expert with  
real-world experience in these areas to cut through the fog.

If you’re able and interested, or can refer me to anyone who might be,  
please email me: anejr at alevans dot com.

Thanks!

–Al Evans

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**Author:** ![al-evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@al-evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/al-evans)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-consultation/92056/2 "2007-04-15T21:45:55Z")

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Hello Al.

I’d love to discuss this with you personally.

If you’d like to chat, please call me at 916-600-0768

–  
– Tom M., CTO  
– Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting  
– Reliability, Ease of Use, Scalability  
– (866) 518-YARD (9273)

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**Author:** ![al-evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@al-evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/al-evans)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-consultation/92056/3 "2007-04-16T05:33:36Z")

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Al,

I may be able to assist. See [http://bgrant.dnsalias.org/](http://bgrant.dnsalias.org/) for recent  
history etc. If you have questions please feel free to email me. My  
availability is somewhat constrained due to ongoing commitments  
however I do have some hours/wk available for new projects. I  
definitely have recent real-world experience in cutting through the  
relevant fog.

If you’d like to schedule a call to discuss the specifics of your  
deployment and anticipated growth/scaling requirements let me know.

Regards,

Benjamin

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