I'm in the thick of moving and it's stressful. Two Men and a Truck makes it easier. True to their name, a couple guys show up, pack all of your stuff in a truck and move it to the new location. Building a server is stressful too. What packages do you need? How should you tweak configuration files? Is everything secure? Is the process documented? The list goes on. We want to make it less stressful for you and demonstrate the power of Blueprint. 

Introducing Two Men and a Server - tell us what you want, be as specific as possible, and we'll build a server for you. We'll package everything up in a Blueprint that you can easily reuse on a new or existing server. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or CentOS - your choice. AWS, Rackspace, Linode, Slicehost - anywhere you have root. Rethinking application design, moving providers or starting from scratch - not a problem. Just tell us what you need and we'll build it with Blueprint. Richard and I know servers and are happy to help - no strings attached. Get in touch and we'll get you a server.

Last week we rolled out Blueprint 3.0.4 to bring the speed and a rich new syntax for ignoring files and packages when creating blueprints. Not to rest on our laurels, we released Blueprint 3.0.5 this week which added the ability to tar up arbitrary directories along with your blueprint and a new blueprint-diff(1) command.

Now we're excited to announce something a little different: Blueprint I/O, a way to move your blueprints around.

Blueprint I/O comes with a default Blueprint I/O Server that we're making available free of charge which stores your blueprints in Amazon S3. Use blueprint-push(1) and blueprint-pull(1) to centralize your configuration management and bootstrap new servers painlessly.

Blueprint I/O is open-source and we're very interested in seeing where you take it.