On Mon, Oct 23, 2006, Chris Anderson wrote: > What else can I tell you? Mongrel is a no-brainer. It is stable as hell, and > can serve your rails app all by itself if you don't expect heavy load or > concurrent requests. From the performance tests I've seen, it is fairly easy > to get a Mongrel setup to about 90% of the speed of a precisely-tuned > FastCGI setup. Mongrel hasn't been around long enough to know what a > precisely-tuned setup with it can do, but more and more people are switching > to it. If you get comfortable with Mongrel + Apache, you'll have a skill set > that ought to go far in the next few years with Rails.
My experience has been that mongrel out-of-the-box is faster than the default lighty/mod_fcgid/mod_fastcgi setup that most people on this list would end up using. It's certainly fast enough if you're hosting on a shared service (as Dave is). Ben _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
