Ed, If you're hosting provider is suggesting that passenger is slower, it's in *their* environment. You might consider another provider then.
You might take a look at the survey results we just posted at http://rails-hosting.com. Cheers, Robby On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll take a look at that, thanks. My hosting provider says that > passenger is slower than mongrel in a shared environment, because of > the delay when processes have to be restarted. > > But ultimately I will have the same question: how can I measure when > traffic is too much for my shared host? > > On Mar 10, 8:42 pm, Tom Z Meinlschmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ed wrote: >> > I have a rails app with a growing user base. Right now it is on a >> > single mongrel instance on a shared server. Is there a quantifiable >> > method I can use to measure when I need to add mongrel instances, or >> > move to a dedicated server? Are there rules of thumb for how many >> > users or page hits an instance can support? Or is it solely >> > subjective, based on when the app starts to "feel" slow? >> >> Ed, why not to move to phusion passenger? It's fast and intended for >> heavier load than mongrel (even in cluster) >> >> tom >> >> -- >> =========================================================================== >> ==== >> Tomas Meinlschmidt, MS {MCT, MCP+I, MCSE, AER}, NetApp Filer/NetCache >> >> www.meinlschmidt.com www.maxwellrender.cz www.lightgems.cz >> =========================================================================== >> ==== > > > -- Robby Russell Chief Evangelist, Partner PLANET ARGON, LLC design // development // hosting w/Ruby on Rails http://planetargon.com/ http://robbyonrails.com/ http://twitter.com/planetargon aim: planetargon +1 503 445 2457 +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free] +1 815 642 4068 [fax] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
