hey all,
I’m looking to deploy my rails app but havn’t decided yet on the setup. mongrel_cluster+pound looks like the most simple solution but is it enough (as in will it scale 
if the server gets a lot of visitors? or is (pound?)+apache2+mongrel or anything else better?
thanx in advance
Pat
Hello Patrick,
I'm looking to deploy my rails app but havn't decided yet on the setup. mongrel_cluster+pound looks like the most simple solution but is it enough (as in will it scale
It is recommended that you let a regular web server handle the static file content. Mongrel can serve the static file content, but it is supposed to make a more robust system.
Personnaly, I have Apache2 + mod_balance talking to Mongrel backends. This is rock solid and have had no problems. Of course, I don't have huge loads on the servers.
Bye !
do you know of a good tutorial do do a apache2+mod_balancing+mongrel, I found some but they were pretty complex.
thanx in advance
Pat
It is recommended that you let a regular web server handle the static file content. Mongrel can serve the static file content, but it is supposed to make a more robust system.
Personnaly, I have Apache2 + mod_balance talking to Mongrel backends. This is rock solid and have had no problems. Of course, I don't have huge loads on the servers.
do you know of a good tutorial do do a apache2+mod_balancing+mongrel, I found some but they were pretty complex.
What do you need? Search the lists for configuration examples (this list, but more importantly the mongrel list). Other than that it's just installing apache2 and mongrel then configuring....
-philip
hi there, here´s another configuration that i use for a rather large site with lots and lots of db reads but considerably less db writes (think cms and a fair amount of sweepstakes) i have litespeed as the server on one machine mysql5 on another machine a cluster of memcached machines to cache pretty much all the db reads i use cached model for the models and put them in memcached i also put the sessions into memcached this works extremely well and beat a mongrel cluster for my purposes. even though i must say that the biggest speed improvement of the whole setup was memcached and litespeed was just icing on the cake.
a quick rundown of the stuff that needs to be installed:
the ruby bindings for that can be installed as a gem cached model also and of course litespeed
kind regards, alexander
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