2009/3/11 Ed <[email protected]> > > 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? >
It seems to be a rather naive answer but can you not tell that the traffic is too much by the fact that it slows down unacceptably? Or am I missunderstanding the question, are you trying to predict in advance at what traffic level it will slow down too much? > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
