On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Marshal Linfoot <mlinf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks William and John. > The http server is Litespeed. No mongrel, thin, etc. One of the reasons I've > been using it is because it is dead simple to setup/configure and run. It > was recommended in some Slicehost tutorials as the easiest way to get up and > running with Rails apps, no need for backend servers or load balancers. It
(just out of curiosity) which article? i did a quick search of their articles site but didn't see anything that "had" to be the one you're talking about. > supports Rack and Rails 2.3.2. BUT, maybe it's time to look at something > else. What do you suggest, nginx and thin, mongrel, ...? I'm game to try > something new. lately i've been using nginx+passenger. if you go with apache use the mpm worker variant (if at all possible) since it will use less memory than the prefork version. since you're on slicehost i'd also look at their 32bit os options (if it's not too much of a hassle to switch at this point) which will greatly reduce the amount of ram dedicated to all the stuff that isn't your rails/radiant app. i recently setup a 32bit debian 5 there and if i recall the base system used about 30mb of ram instead of the roughly 100mb for the 64bit version; the difference is probably enough to support one extra (passenger or whatever) process which is nice. so far i haven't noticed any difference in performance.
