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This issues has now been resolved Dear Customers, It has come to our attention that the data centre hosting a number of our servers has had a major explosion. What follows is the notification from the data centre. "...electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost. We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department." "...Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by late on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock." The majority of our servers are unaffected as they are housed in a different physical location, however, the following servers have been affected by the explosion: bingo.media72.net shipstern.media72.net While the circumstances of this outage are completely beyond our control, we do apologise for the impact to our customers and thank you for your patience while the data centre staff work to restore power and service. Please refer to our blog for updates on the situation. Media72 Staff

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Media72 are pleased to announce the immediate availability of mod_rails driven Ruby on Rails hosting packages. Mod_rails, or Phusion Passenger as it is also known, has been gaining a lot of attention recently, and rightly so. It's a huge step forward for the Rails hosting community in terms of application deployment and management. Many big names in the industry such as David Heinemeier Hansson and Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) already have good things to say about mod_rails. Mod_rails vastly simplifies Ruby on Rails deployment, no longer will you have to mess around with .htaccess files or deal with fastcgi fickleness. Deployment can be as simple as uploading your rails application then loading it in your browser. And restarting your application is achieved by simply creating a text file called restart.txt in your rails tmp directory, what could be more simple? Our customers are already enjoying the benefits of mod_rails and we are one of the only hosts in the UK to offer support for mod_rails at this time. All of our rails accounts are hosted in our well connected London data centre which means fantastic speeds around Europe. Using Media72 you will also enjoy better search engine rankings with the UK engines when compared to hosting elsewhere. Why not take a look at our comprehensive range of mod_rails based packages? Prices start from only £7 a month.