On 2/27/07, Paul King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but might I ask what your hardware setup/config is for ten mongrels? Thanks, - Paul On 27/02/07, Pete DeLaurentis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having multiple servers has been a must in my experience with Mongrel, > mainly because if a task is database / IO bound then other users have to > wait for it. > > I'm using Lighttpd => Pound => 10 Mongrels right now. > > Lighttpd just released a new version (1.5), which has the ability to > directly contact multiple mongrels. > > I'll likely upgrade to this later in the week. Then I'll just have Lighttpd > => 10 Mongrels > > > Hope this helps, > Pete > > > On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:48 PM, tom wang wrote: > > After reading the digital shortcut and the > documentation on the web site I'm confused. > Which one should I use? pen, balance or nginx ? > > I don't want to use a behemoth like appache and ssl is > not needed so it reduces my choice to those three > only.... > > What are the pros and cons of each? I don't have much > money, so the less ressources I use the better it is > for me.... > > As an additional question, how far would a one server > configuration get me? I'm going to be serving a lot of > pictures and have some simple treatment of photos > (resizing and such) >
You really wanna consider nginx. Check their wiki on mongrel+rails http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxRubyonRailsMongrel It can do all yoru static images and you can add servers to your mongrel cluster as needed. It's gonna be a lot smaller than apache, and you can easily do ssl with it if you want.
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