We're Hiring!
We're on the lookout for enthusiastic individuals to join our design and development team. For more information, visit our jobs page.

Also, be sure to check out the new PLANET ARGON blog.

What is PLANET ARGON?
PLANET ARGON is a "full stack" Ruby on Rails web application design, development, consulting and hosting firm.

We craft experiences!

Who is PLANET ARGON?
The core team consists of Robby Russell, Founder & Executive Director, Allison Beckwith, Co-Founder & Experience Director, Gary Blessington, Design and Development Director, Chris Griffin, User Interface Designer, Paige Saez, Interaction Designer, Graeme Nelson, Lead Architect, Andy Delcambre, Developer, Daniel Johnson, Systems Administrator, Alex Malinovich, Systems Administrator, and Melissa Severini, Office Coordinator. Learn more...

Where is PLANET ARGON?
Located in the beautiful downtown Portland, Oregon Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood.

Read Our Blogs

Company Blog

Allison Beckwith

Alex Malinovich

Andy Delcambre

Chris Griffin

Daniel Johnson

Gary Blessington

Graeme Nelson

Paige Saez

Robby Russell

PLANET ARGON Newsletter

Rails Hosting

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All of our standard shared-hosting packages accomodate Ruby on Rails applications. From just over $11 a month (USD), you can be running a Rails website with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite databases. PLANET ARGON offers a 24 hour installation turnaround, so you can be up and “rolling on rails” by this time tomorrow!

At PLANET ARGON you can deploy your Ruby on Rails application with any combination of the following tools:

Lighttpd
Mongrel
Pound
Capistrano

To learn more about how customers are managing their hosting accounts with PLANET ARGON, visit the PLANET ARGON Documentation project.

Please contact us if you have any questions about hosting your Rails application at PLANET ARGON. Also, be sure to check out the Rails Hosting FAQ for additional information.

What are customers have to say…

My clients need the kind of site that is typically hosted on a dedicated server—not because of the traffic, but because they need to be able to configure things their way. Rather, they need me to be able to configure things their way. You provide as close an approximation in a shared hosting environment as there is to dedicated or VPS.

With this latitude comes a need for a particular kind of support. One of the reasons I like hosting with you is that you relieve me of the network support responsibilities. I work hard on code and design issues, but don’t have a lot left over for server configuration, troubleshooting, backups and maintenance. That’s why it’s great that you guys take care of all of that. But, beyond that, the stuff I’m doing is on the edge, literally. I have configurations of edge rails running on your servers right now! With David’s help, I’ve been able to get as close to complete control over the environment as I need and I feel confident you, as distinctly compared to your competitors, know the issues involved in Rails apps.”_

Steve Ross
Callico Web Designs

“If you are looking for a place to host Ruby on Rails web applications, then you owe it to yourself to check out Planet Argon. Planet Argon has the fastest and most knowledgable technical support for hosting Ruby on Rails web applications that I have ever used.”
Curt Hibbs
Senior Software Engineer
The Boeing Company

View the current list of installed Ruby Gems.

Deployment Options
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Disk Space	500 MB	1 GB	1.5 GB	2 GB
Bandwidth	15 GB	30 GB	50 GB	125 GB
Resident Memory	48 MB	68 MB	96 MB	128 MB
Virtual Memory	96 MB	128 MB	196 MB	256 MB
Running Processes	20	30	40	60
Domains and/or Sub-Domains (ie. admin.mydomain.com)	10	20	30	40
Mongrel Cluster
Pound
Nginx
Lighttpd
Price Breakdown
6 Months Rate	$80	$140	$210	$285
Annual Rate	$135	$250	$365	$480
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
Setup Cost	FREE	FREE	FREE	FREE
	More info	More info	More info	More info

For more information on these plans, please visit our Hosting page.