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    <title>Robby on Rails: Announcing Cobalt and monthly subscriptions for Boxcar</title>
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      <title>Announcing Cobalt and monthly subscriptions for Boxcar</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8217;ve been designing and developing a new centralized billing platform over the past few months and late last week, we launched it! Along with this new billing platform, we launched another new application, &lt;a href="http://cobalt.planetargon.com"&gt;Cobalt&lt;/a&gt;, which is a new account management and support tool for our hosting customers.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;div class="thumbnail"&gt;&lt;a href="http://skitch.com/robbyrussell/jxi8/cobalt-account-management"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080414-fifqwjjm6cw5h8da13enma17tb.preview.jpg" alt="Cobalt - account management" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080"&gt;Uploaded with &lt;a href="http://plasq.com/"&gt;plasq&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8217;s &lt;a href="http://skitch.com"&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

	&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8217;ll be migrating all of our past customers over to this new system in time, but are initially using it for new &lt;a href="http://railsboxcar.com"&gt;Boxcar&lt;/a&gt; customers.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.railsboxcar.com/img/boxcar_logo_wide.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8217;ve been building the new system to use &lt;a href="http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/"&gt;Braintree&lt;/a&gt; as our new credit card payment gateway. With this switch, we&amp;#8217;re also &lt;a href="http://blog.planetargon.com/2008/4/10/monthly-pricing-plan-for-rails-boxcar"&gt;introducing monthly subscription rates for Boxcar&lt;/a&gt;, which means that you can try it out month-to-month now.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Over the next few weeks/months, we&amp;#8217;ll be announcing several features to Cobalt that will ease your Rails deployment experience.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I want to thank all those on my team that helped get these new applications up and running.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re looking for professional &lt;span class="caps"&gt;VPS&lt;/span&gt;-based Rails hosting, hop on our train by &lt;a href="http://cobalt.planetargon.com/signup"&gt;ordering a Boxcar today&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;$99/month&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;For more information, visit &lt;a href="http://railsboxcar.com"&gt;railsboxcar.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://planetargon.com"&gt;Planet Argon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Also, be sure to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/boxcar"&gt;follow Boxcar&lt;/a&gt; on twitter.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:24:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Robby Russell</author>
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