That would be my first thought is that his ancient setup (in the sense of how fast things move in technology) might be causing more problems and something more "modern" might help him out. My recommendation for mod_rails stems more from his talk about portability than anything else and I just worked on getting it set up on my server last night.
On Nov 16, 9:18 pm, "Jeremy McAnally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like FCGI and RMagick are causing your issues. I'd have to > know a little more exactly what your issues are, but that combination > seems rather deadly in a limited resources environment. > > --Jeremy > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Roland Mai > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been away from Rails for a year now, but I have been maintaining > > a site which runs on rails. It's still hosted on textdrive served by > > lighttpd with fastcgi. There's something inherently wrong with fastcgi > > and file uploading. Something about an end of line issue, but mongrel > > kept dieing too. > > > The site keeps on crashing, so I have scripts running that basically > > restart the webservice every so often, but that's just unacceptable for > > more serious work. I can't go to a client and explain what the error > > was. They don't care. > > > The site uses RMagick to resize images and does some basic file > > uploading. I have been in the PHP world for a year now, and I feel that > > PHP is much more stable and portable than Rails. I am at a loss at > > finding any good reasons to choose Rails, other than I like the Ruby > > language. > > > Rails is not as portable as PHP. The sites are generally slow because > > they require a bunch of CPU and shared environments don't have the > > resources. My compromise so far is that Rails is very demanding for > > small projects. > > > Do you know of any reasons that makes Rails well suited for small > > projects and I don't mean microsites or brochure sites. > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > --http://jeremymcanally.com/http://entp.com/http://omgbloglol.com > > My books:http://manning.com/mcanally/http://humblelittlerubybook.com/(FREE!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
