EDIT: And we're back! The hn-facing server should be able to stand up to a bit more of a beating now, and I've increased the background workers (cheating a bit, since normal bushido apps can't do that yet), so we should be able to tear through the queue much more quickly.<p>Edit: I've put in a different public server (outside of the normal rotation) for everyone to hit. It's a single box instead of the elastic cloud - so it'll be a bit slower launching for everyone trying it out, but it'll keep the normal sites we run going snappy.<p>Wow, big thanks to Jacques for such a kind article. He, and several other on hn, have been wonderfully helpful all along the development of Bushido.<p>If there are any questions feel free to post them here, and I'll do my best to keep up with answering them!<p>Feel free to shoot me an email at s@bushi.do with any questions or you're looking to get into the beta - be sure to mention hn :)<p>Oh, and here's a totally gratuitous video for everyone wondering wtf this is, and wondering to themselves, "how can I deploy ~20 apps in 2 minutes?": <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/412963/bushido/bushido_hill.mov" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/412963/bushido/bushido_hill.mov</a><p>I'll start collecting some of the questions here:<p>Q: It's stuck at 8%!
A: Yup. Bushido is self-hosting, because we want to have the same experience as our users. We give everyone 1 background worker for free - and we haven't needed to have more, up until now. We'll add this in later, but for now, just let it hang out for awhile, until the DelayedJob worker goes through the queue and gets to you :)<p>Q: What happens to my data?
A: All the DB data is kept, and backed up (currently it's daily, will go down to hourly), and can be exported any time. Data written to the file system isn't guaranteed to be there, unless it's written to RAILS_ROOT/permanent (or the rails 3 equivalent). If it is written there, it will be backed up on the same schedule as the DB data.<p>Q: Where is the application running?
A: The applications all run on our servers (the ones currently taking a bit of a beating). No need for you to do anything on your side.<p>Q: What is the end goal of the project?
A: Ah, well now, that'd be a bit boring if we just spilled it out right now :) Suffice to say, one-click/automated deployment is just the tip of where we're headed right now. Check out the developer beta if you want to find out more!