This is a collection of frequently asked questions about the makandra hosting environment and our operations services.

Our opscomplete gives you everything necessary to run a modern web infrastructure in a professional manner.

Physical security We're hosting in the datacenter "Munich East" of our datacenter provider noris. The datacenter holds multiple certifications...

We offer to join your Slack (via Slack's Shared Channels) as an additional communication channel next to e-mail...

New Deployments Looking for a checklist for new deployments? You will find it here: Adding new deployments. Servers

From the previous card about the deployment structure we now want to set up Capistrano 3. In the following Cards...

First, in your project, you need to install Capistrano 3 for Rails. You can find the official documentation here.

If you followed this guide, you will have already executed bundle exec cap install STAGES=staging,production and your project...

Our Rails deployments are run by passenger on the application servers, to automatically restart passenger workers after a deploy you...

As it's possible that you manage the Ruby version by yourself we created the capistrano-opscomplete Gem to support...

If you want to use Puma as the application server you have the two following options. There is the capistrano...

In most cases your application needs configuration data like database endpoints or API keys to work. This section will help...

If there is an error or if you need to check whether requests are arriving at your server, you should...

Please contact ops@makandra.de if you want to change how your Ruby version is managed. Selfmanaged Ruby Version

When a new application deployment is to be created we always need the same set of information. If possible, please...

If you need to run specific program(s) and be sure they will get restarted if they quit unexpectedly or...

Here is an example configuration for using Sidekiq with our Procfile support and Capistrano. Sidekiq specific steps in lib/capistrano/tasks/sidekiq.rake. Please...

If you want to use containers for your deployment, we support this via a docker-compose.yml file. For this case we...

Managed Hosting includes a wide variety of monitoring methods to ensure stable operation of your servers and applications. Corresponding checks...

We offer shared services for ruby on rails applications on our server infrastructure. With that you get a default setup...

As you can see in Infrastructure basics your application servers are placed behind three load balancers. They accept all HTTP/S...

A load balancer has to know where and when it can traffic forward to. A malfunctioning application server or one...

By default, our load balancers pass all incoming requests to your application without throttling them in any way.

At makandra we can provide different solutions for HTTPS/SSL. Let's Encrypt (Recommended solution) Let's Encrypt is a certificate...