On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:56 AM, goodieboy wrote:
> > Hi, > > I've been looking into deployment for a rails app for a week and I > have to say I'm totally overwhelmed by the options! The main problem > is I can't use Apache 2.2, only 2.0. > > I'm sold on mongrel and clustering with it. But what to use for a > balancer and static file server? > > I'm messing with LightTPD, seems to be working but I just read on the > NGINX site that it leaks 20MB/hour? Yikes. Can't have that. > > NGINX looks promising, but what kind of support is there? Can I tell > our sys admins that it's OK and nothing to worry about? > > I don't think I can do Apache because it doesn't do load balancing on > 2.0. > > What should I do? The main concern is that whatever setup I choose, it > needs to be as light weight as possible and almost invisible to the > rest of the server in terms of strain. Just use nginx and mongrel cluster. It meets your requirements better then any of the other mentioned options. I am running close to 300 instances of nginx in front of mongrel clusters and nginx has been rock solid, uses basically no resources even under heavy load and is basically the one part of my stack that I've *never* had a problem with. Nginx is rock solid and IMHO the absol;ute best front end for mongrel cluster available today. Using pound or anythign esle in between apache and mongrel is just adding complexity for no benefits. Just use nginx, you won't regret it. Cheers- -- Ezra Zygmuntowicz -- Lead Rails Evangelist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Engine Yard, Serious Rails Hosting -- (866) 518-YARD (9273) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" 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/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---