Big news! New features & New prices.

It’s that time of year again. Very exciting news from your folks here at Webbynode.

It has been a few months of being very quiet, but we have been very busy working on today’s release – wich we are very excited about.

This release is part of the process to provide more value to our customers, and we have brought a lot of new features as well as a new pricing structure.

The new pricing structure is now live for new customers, and also for active customers – who will be charged the new prices on next month’s invoice.

We’re proud to present the new pricing table:

* Webby 256 $9.99
* Webby 384 $14.99
* Webby 512 $19.99
* Webby 768 $29.99
* Webby 1024 $39.99
* Webby 2048 $79.99
* Webby 4096 $159.99

Rapp Officially Live

Our Rapid Application Deployment framework, Rapp, is now publicly available. And there are tons of new Rapp features too!

Extensive Engines Support

• Full support for Rails 3 RC1 and Bundler RC;
• Improved Rails 2 support;
• Bundler support for Rails 2 and Rack applications.
• Beta support for Django 1.2.1;
• Improved PHP support;
• Node.JS support being released in the upcoming weeks as an alpha preview.

Improved Usability

Alternate SSH Port: You now can use Rapp even if you changed your SSH port to make your Webby more secure.

Smart defaults: We now don’t require you to tell us which Webby you want to deploy to, if you happen to have only one. It was kind of obvious, right? We also add your SSH key to the remote server by default, so you don’t have to type your password over and over again.

Add-ons

One of the most exciting news regarding Rapp is the addition of addons (pun not intended).

With one command you can manage which addons you want to install along with your application.

We support Memcached, Beanstalk, Redis and the long awaited MongoDB.

Multiplatform

Rapp already worked great in Linux and Mac OS X. However, a very requested feature was always Windows support.

We have now a dedicated tutorial to explain what you need to install to make Rapp work in your Windows machine. Go check it out.

And, on top of that, you still have all the goodness Rapp brings:

* Amazon S3 Backups
* Git Workflow Deployment
* DNS Integration
* PHP / Rails 3 / Rails 2 / Rack side-by-side support
* Webby handling (reboot, restart, etc.)
* Deployment hooks

32bit & New OS versions.

Alongside with these exciting Rapp improvements, we have released more two long awaited features: 32-bit OS support and Ubuntu 10.04 support, both 32 and 64-bit. With that pack, you also get the following new OSes:

* Ubuntu 10.04 (32 and 64-bit)
* Ubuntu 9.10 (32 and 64-bit)
* Ubuntu 9.04 (32 and 64-bit)
* Debian 5.03 (32 and 64-bit)
* CentOS 5.4 (32 and 64-bit)
* Fedora Core 12 (32 and 64-bit)

Thats the news for today! Enjoy the new pricing and new features. Let us know what you think and leave a comment.