RepairPal Pairs Up With Engine Yard to Launch Ruby on Rails Application

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ — After more than four months in
production, RepairPal, a fast-growing online resource for unbiased auto repair
estimates, reports excellent uptime, scalability, and responsiveness from
their Ruby on Rails-based application — thanks to Engine Yard’s deployment
platform and hosting service.

In October 2007, RepairPal engaged with Engine Yard, the leader in cloud
deployment and open-source tools for Ruby and Rails applications, to help
provide development guidance and staging for the company’s June 2008 launch.

“In this industry, the vendors are saying that they’ll be your outsourced
hosting provider and systems administration team. That’s a very tall order
and difficult to provide,” said David Esser, co-founder and CTO of RepairPal.
“Engine Yard delivered on this. They really are our outsourced systems
administration team and hosting provider. It’s great for me to be able to
offload that to them, and they do a much better job at it than we ever could.”

Their site, http://www.RepairPal.com, offers car service price estimates,
user ratings and reviews for repair shops, reliability ratings and reviews for
specific vehicle makes and models, free repair Q&A forums, and an online
system for managing and tracking all service on a vehicle. Since launch,
RepairPal has had a number of big publicity hits that resulted in days of very
high traffic spikes, but the company has yet to see server CPU go beyond 3 to
5 percent.

“RepairPal took a big leap of faith by building their business on Rails,
and Engine Yard is pleased to help them move this application from concept to
production,” said Lance Walley, CEO of Engine Yard. “They’ve proven that
Rails is more than ready for primetime and already powering a new generation
of web applications.”

For other companies considering Rails, Esser recommends that they consider
partnering with an expert provider like Engine Yard: “It’s a much more
cost-effective solution. And because Rails can have some scalability
challenges, it makes sense to host the solution with people who are really in
the know as far how to make it scale.”

For more details about RepairPal’s experience with Rails and working with
Engine Yard, visit http://www.engineyard.com/about/customers/repairpal.

Getting Started with Engine Yard

Organizations ready to roll their Ruby or Rails applications into
production can contact Engine Yard at sales@engineyard.com or by calling
1-866-518-9273.

About RepairPal

RepairPal is a free, easy-to-use online auto resource that provides the
most accurate and complete information on auto repair and maintenance
available to consumers. RepairPal’s service helps consumers save money on
their cars by providing fair service price estimates, a comprehensive auto
shop directory with user reviews, and expert insights from ASE-certified
mechanics. RepairPal’s unique, patent-pending system relies on multiple
sources of proprietary data to provide accurate repair price estimates for
most major and minor repairs on 98% of passenger vehicles in the U.S.
RepairPal was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA. For
more information, please visit http://www.RepairPal.com.

About Engine Yard

Engine Yard provides the platform and expert support for deploying Ruby
and Rails applications to the cloud, giving customers the peace of mind and
stability needed for building sites and applications on demand. Engine Yard
has a track record of hiring expert talent and fostering open-source
innovation, including stewardship of the Rubinius (http://www.rubini.us) and
Merb (http://www.merbivore.com) projects. Headquartered in San Francisco,
Calif., Engine Yard was founded in 2006 and is backed by Benchmark Capital,
New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com. Visit http://www.engineyard.com.

SOURCE Engine Yard