On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At $23.95 for half a gig of ram, $45 for 1 gig, I'm willing to learn > freebsd and try octopus out. > That's the best local value I've seen. What's their network > reliability and downtime like? How many people are running ruby/rails > et al on *bsd these days? > Guess I'm going to find some of this out...
I only use FreeBSD for rails. Works great with passenger, mongrel or anything else. Aside from the fact that it is very stable and the fastest tcp/ip stack around :) I have 3 FreeBSD servers running rails and a bunch of other sites sitting behind two OpenBSD load balanced firewalls each with their own redundant 100mb internet connect through two redundant switches doing forwarding relay (http and https) and balancing across the servers, which all talk to a back end PostgreSQL DB server with warm standby failover to another PostgreSQL DB server. Works _really_ well. Nothing quite like being able to reboot a server or a firewall or a switch without any traffic interruption. Or upgrade the database server without having to take down the sites. So yeah... BSD rocks :) -- http://lindsaar.net/ Rails, RSpec and Life blog.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
