We're running Hardware Load Balancers in front of nginx in front of mongrel_clusters on a site that averages 40 million hits a day. The biggest problem we've see involves memory leaks in the rails app. In a load balanced situation, that's no the end of the world, as we just run scripts to fix those problems when they crop up. Besides that, we can only rant and rave about the success of this setup.
-- Jesse Proudman Blue Box Group, LLC p. +1.800.613.4305 x801 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 17, 2007, at 6:17 PM, Jarkko Laine wrote: > Mongrel's speed is in the same ballpark as FastCGI's with Rails (it > is, after all, a similarly long-running process). It might be a tad > slower because sockets are probably a bit faster than going through > http. However, the difference is normally negligible and will be > more than offset by the flexibility it brings you. There have also > been some stability problems with the FastCGI approach which are > exceedingly harder to debug than plain http connections. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
