One more note - even if you use Passenger + Apache (because it *is* lovely) for the rails app, you will still see significant performance benefits by serving your static content (images, css, cached items) via Nginx.
On 4/23/08, Kurt Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would highly recommend that you try Nginx. It is significantly faster > than the other common servers we have tested at Sebo, both as a proxy and > for serving static content directly. > > On 4/23/08, Steve Morrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <SNIP> > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > Those instructions are quite old. I would not recommend using > > lighttpd. Until recently, the setup of choice was to use some kind of > > software-based load balancer (such as mod_proxy_balancer) in front of > > a few mongrel instances, but now there is an easier way. There is a > > new apache module called passenger that is very easy to set up: > > > > http://www.modrails.com/ > > > > </SNIP> > > > > Holy mother of pearl! > > Thats awesome Carl, thanks! > > > > > > Sincerely, > > Steve > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > > > > -- > Kurt -- Kurt /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
