On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Ed 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. This is only relevant if you don't get enough traffic to keep the passenger/rails instance alive. What I've read says that once up and running passenger is faster than mongrel, but best to do your own research. Start here: http://www.modrails.com/documentation.html (part way down) > But ultimately I will have the same question: how can I measure when > traffic is too much for my shared host? That's a question for them. Find out what their limits are and then figure out when you'll hit them. > > > 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 >> = >> = >> = >> = >> = >> = >> = >> = >> =================================================================== >> ==== > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
