We are pleased to announce Scalr Mission Critical today, a plan aimed at mission critical sites where downtime is not an option.
Scalr Mission Critical offers phone support, a service level agreement or SLA, and quick response times when any issues arise.
Learn all about it here.
To sign up, just login as normal and on the dashboard, change your account type to Mission Critical!
Last week we updated the dashboard to include logs and shortcuts, today we released a new menu bar. If you haven’t done so already, log in, check it out, and let us know if you have any suggestions for improvements.
Stay tuned for much more beginning next week!
We’re pleased to release the first beta of Scalr Remote, a web-based application that uses Scalr’s API to let you check in on your applications and farms – load, size, and health – and show it to friends or colleagues. And if anything needs to be done, you can even use it to manage your infrastructure!
It is available at mobile.scalr.net, and will soon be integrated into scalr.net so when you click on an email alert, you’ll be taken to the proper UI.
To add the Scalr Remote Control to the home screen of your iPhone (see below), click the + icon and ‘Add to Home Screen’. Give it a name and your done!
The September release brings in a long awaited improvement of the Dashboard, which you’ll notice next time you log in. 
You’ll also notice the red “What’s new” notice in the top right, which shows recently added features – in this case a “I use Scalr!” link that takes you to your profile page where you can add some information about yourself or your company, and appear on a special Testimonials page. There’s no obligation to participate, but if you like Scalr, it would help others make a decision, knowing that peers have chosen it.
We also added some API methods: GetScriptDetails, RebootInstance, GetEvents, GetLogs, and added the ability to execute scripts with specified revision and parameters.
Plus a couple of improvements:
* Added ability to edit farm role specified security group
* Added Hide terminated instances checkbox on instances list.
* Added ability to view all instances (include non-scalr ones)
* Added ability to set system timezone for clients (Logs, Events, API logs)
And finally, there’s a couple of bug fixes:
* Fixed bug in garbage.php with “select all” checkbox
* Fixed bug with default SSH port (see thread)
* Various bugfixes and improvements
Though in a rough form, we have set up a wiki that will undoubtedly answer many of your questions. It is available at http:/wiki.scalr.net.
Worth taking a look at is the Getting Started guide that explains the concepts behind Scalr’s scaling methodology, and gets you up and running fast.
If there is anything missing, send me an email at sebastian@scalr.net to let me know, or better yet, add it to the wiki!
It is with deep regret that we must announce the passing of Alexey Kovalyov, a founding member of the Scalr team.
He had struggled with an illness over the past months, and alas succumbed last Friday. He will be buried today in Sevastopol, Ukraine.
He had just turned 29.
Alexey was a dear friend to many of us. To the others, he was an esteemed colleague. He was curious, obliging, and respected for his intellect and competence. He will be sorely missed.
If you have worked with him in the past, met with him online or offline, please leave us a note here. We will pass them on to his family.
We have extended our API with functions for working with DNS zones, and added ListDNSZones, ListDNSZoneRecords, AddDNSZoneRecord and RemoveDNSZoneRecord.
Documentation and sample code may be found at http://wiki.scalr.net/API_Documentation
Cheers,
The Scalr Team
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You can now post issues at http://support.scalr.net/ (also available in the top right-hand corner next to ‘Log out’ when logged in to Scalr.net).
Cheers,
The Scalr Team
Good news! Scalr is graduating from beta!
We’re confident that we have reached a sufficient level of reliability with the extra redundancy added last week, the 1.1.0 release, the August Scalr.net release, and all the bugs we ironed out. So we decided to let go of the “we’re in beta” excuse and brave a new world!
For now, we are extending the beta pricing at $50/month until August 15 as a special promotion. After that, it will be a regular $99/month. Signup before August 15th and benefit from the promotional $50/month beta price forever!
As a courtesy to our beta subscribers, they get to keep the beta pricing. Forever.
More good news, this time for subscribers at Scalr.net. The following changes are now available:
API improvements:
* Added 3 new methods: LaunchInstance, TerminateInstance, GetFarmDetails
* Improved the ExecuteScript method.
Core improvements:
* Rewrote the “Synchronize to all” feature. Cleaner and more reliable now.
* Same goes for AutoEBS and AutoEIP. Cleaner and more reliable.
* When you create a new AMI for a custom role, you can now switch over to it immediately.
* And the long awaited “Keep me logged in” checkbox on the login page!
Events system improvements:
* Added new event: OnDNSZoneUpdated
Scripting engine improvements:
* Added the %zone_name% variable for scripts executed on DNSZoneUpdate event
* Added the %new_ip_address% variable for scripts executed on IPAddressChanged event
* Added the %volume_id% and %mountpoint% variables for scripts executed on EBSVolumeMounted event
Fixed numerous of bugs.