Recommended webserver for deploying Rails

rubyonrails-talk
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Dear all,

What is the best architecture in terms of performance for Rails. Is lighttpd + mongrel the most recommended deployment architecture for Rails? Or is there any better architecture that outperform this architecture?

Thank you very much in advance.

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Joshua Partogi wrote:

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Dear all,

What is the best architecture in terms of performance for Rails. Is lighttpd + mongrel the most recommended deployment architecture for Rails? Or is there any better architecture that outperform this architecture?

As far as I can tell the big 2 these days are nginx + mongrel, apache + passenger and probably quite a few people using apache + mongrel.

Fred

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Well, in my experience there are probably three ways to go:

apache + passenger* apache + mongrel/thin nginx + mongrel/thin

Personally, I run with just apache + passenger from this point forward. It has done everything I need, and has had zero downtime due to the configuration, and more due to my idiotic way of handling airflow inside the server case.

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Joshua Partogi wrote:

Dear all,

What is the best architecture in terms of performance for Rails. Is lighttpd + mongrel the most recommended deployment architecture for Rails?

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I think most people are either using Passenger (my current choice) or one of the Thin-based solutions. JRuby inside a Java servlet container might be worth looking at too; I've never gone that route, but JRuby is supposed to be very fast. OTOH, Java servlet containers can be a pain.

Best,