Forum: Radiant CMS DreamHost

Hello all!

I'm wondering who all is running Radiant on Dreamhost. I'm wondering if
anyone has a solution to a host which has FastCGI set to max 5 dynamic
dispatch.fcgi. I am having serious scaling issues with Radiant right now
on DreamHost: Specifically, with 5 dispatchers that launch and heavy
traffic, these 5 dispatchers hit well past 200MB usage, and my host is
auto-canning my dispatchers. I have read repeatedly around the net the
best way to control this is to set FastCGI to static and set to 2
processes; However, I can not put FastCgiConfig into .htaccess as I get 
an
error that it does not belong there; On top of this, there is no way to
access http.conf. Any ideas? This is killing me and I'm either going to
have to change hosts or change CMS unless I can work out something soon.
My traffic is increasing steadily and is about to take another jump
because of a partnership and I have no option to move to another host at
this time. Ideas?

Hello... uhm... thoth.

I have one production Rails site on Dreamhost, and my recommendation is 
to
move to another host now. It will be painful, but less painful than if 
you
wait.

Chris

Hello Chris!

Well, I was dreading that. I'd been running --fairly-- smooth up until
today, when my site went totally haywire. I don't know if it was me or
other causes, but Powerbar is having severe issues right now and no clue
what to do about it; The new support form they made does NOT work at 
all;
It makes it to the end where you submit it, and it hangs on the 
submission
portion, so I can't even get ahold of them. I can do the other form of
submission (automated) but it just comes back saying everything is fine.

Thanks Chris
Andrew

On the top comment I would contact Dreamhost support direct they are 
usually helpful.  My experience has been fine using rails on Dreamhost 
so far.  I found that it was not the best place to fully deploy a rails 
environment, but if the development was done locally and the shared host 
with limited access - Dreamhost, just handled the live environment with 
the fastcgi I was fine.  I wrote an article here 
http://topcweb.com/content/ruby-rails-setup

I have a few sites on Dreamhost and I'm wondering if there is a reason 
you elected to not use Passenger. I'm running Private Servers with 
Passenger and memcron running to manage the RAM allocation.

unknown wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I'm wondering who all is running Radiant on Dreamhost. I'm wondering if
> anyone has a solution to a host which has FastCGI set to max 5 dynamic
> dispatch.fcgi. I am having serious scaling issues with Radiant right now
> on DreamHost: Specifically, with 5 dispatchers that launch and heavy
> traffic, these 5 dispatchers hit well past 200MB usage, and my host is
> auto-canning my dispatchers. I have read repeatedly around the net the
> best way to control this is to set FastCGI to static and set to 2
> processes; However, I can not put FastCgiConfig into .htaccess as I get 
> an
> error that it does not belong there; On top of this, there is no way to
> access http.conf. Any ideas? This is killing me and I'm either going to
> have to change hosts or change CMS unless I can work out something soon.
> My traffic is increasing steadily and is about to take another jump
> because of a partnership and I have no option to move to another host at
> this time. Ideas?