Locally founded Engine Yard, a provider of Ruby on Rails hosting has closed a series B round of $15 million from New Enterprise Associates, Amazon.com, and existin

Sacramento born Engine Yard has raised $3.5 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital.

Ruby On Rails hosting provider Engine Yard ([see our profile](http://sacstarts.com/blog/adam-kalse

GigaOm has an article on Engine Yard’s pricing strategy.

By using the EngineYard service for a few months, developers can judge for themselves how good (and scalable) EngineYard services really are without banking on marketing spiel. The biggest downside of the upgrades is that Engine Yard will have to constantly add more support staff, which means that the cost advantages of running a large cluster could simply vanish.

Company: Engine Yard
Founded: Early 2006
Founders: Tom Mornini & Lance Walley