That's exactly what we use. Nginx + Mongrel + Monit + F5 Load Balancers. We had another client this last weekend do 18 million hits at 66 megs / second using that combination. Flawless may be an overstatement, but I'm pretty satisfied with the combo.
-- Jesse Proudman Blue Box Group, LLC p. +1.800.613.4305 x801 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 20, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Jack Christensen wrote: > Roger Pack wrote: >> Wondering what they did to overcome that problem... > Perhaps monit to restart the processes that go too big? It's what I > use. >> Jesse Proudman wrote: >>> 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] > > > -- Jack Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
