Hi Alex/Jesse Thanks for your responses - clearly I have grossly underestimated the loads involved in running a single RoR app, let alone a fleet of them!
So I am stuck :( Can anyone think of a cost effective and maintainable way to host my sites, described below? I have several sites (about 10) which I have developed on behalf of clients - mostly small businesses near where I live. The sites vary greatly in complexity - there are entirely static sites, mostly static sites (with the occasional dynamic page), mostly dynamic sites (where the page content is generated on the fly) and entirely dynamic sites, where the user can login, create new pages on the site, create news items which will be displayed on the home and news pages, etc. None of these sites receive a huge amount of traffic - the total for all the sites is about 10,000 page requests per day. So I was thinking I could host each of these as a separate RoR app - how wrong I was :) So now I am thinking I could host the whole lot as a single app, with a couple of mongrels running the whole shebang. But having considered this I am presented with a few problems: db separation - each dynamic site should (ideally) have it's own db; controller/action selection - two requests selecting the same controller/action on different sites/domains should (probably) select different controllers, even if they all inherit from some default controller; I can't think of any others now, but I'm sure there are a few. Previously I've been using plain, old CGI to do all this. Yes I know my setup is archaic, but at least I have realised that now and am trying to do something about it :) So currently most of my page URLs are something like: http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/controller.cgi?p=action I am keen to get all of my sites using the RoR style of URL formatting, since (for starters) I think it is more user friendly: http://www.mydomain.com/controller/action/ I'd love to use RoR for the dynamic sections of the sites - I've only been using it for a couple of days and already I feel like I'm more productive. But is this going to be possible? Anyway, any and all suggestions gratefully received - I think I've dug myself a bit of a hole, now I just need to find some way out! Thanks Jay -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
