# Debian Hosting Setup **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 22, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debian-hosting-setup/65932 "2006-08-22T14:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debian-hosting-setup/65932/1 "2006-08-22T14:30:00Z")
Friends, I’m about to launch a little usergroup-type community site and have a VPS waiting with (what will be) a clean Debian Stable install. The last time I installed this VPS box, I followed Ezra’s Debian guide to get up and running with hosting. It all worked very well (thanks, Ezra!). I’m planning to run a little rails app as the ‘main’ site, _mostly_ serving static pages. I’m also planning to install Mephisto and Beast at different subdomains for other features. My plan (as it has been with Typo) is to check these projects into my own SVN repo and deploy all the apps with Capistrano. Given the the ‘state-of-the-art’ in Rails hosting has moved on from the Lighty+FCGI I had from Ezra’s tutorial, to mongrel\_cluster + (something-on-the-front), does anyone have any thoughts on how I might proceed ? The current recommendation, as best I can tell, is for Apache2.2, but it’s only available in Debian testing, so I guess that means installing from source. Given source-build for the webserver and the notorious problems with ruby and Debian packaging, should I abandon Debian and apt entirely and go for a different distro (other distros available, see here: [http://www2.bytemark.co.uk/page/Live/hosting/distros/](http://www2.bytemark.co.uk/page/Live/hosting/distros/)) ? I’m a mac user, so not particularly invested in any particular linux (but I have used Debian on these VPSs for a couple of years now). Any thoughts welcome. This is a completely greenfield VPS, so I have a chance to do it right. My only real constraint is that the infrastructure be cap deployable (ideally with the down-for-maintenance facilities) Thanks in advance, Alan ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debian-hosting-setup/65932/2 "2006-08-22T14:58:11Z")
Alan, I built Apache 2.2 from source on my VPS (rimuhosting) and it went smoother that I had expected. Later I found this post describing the process: [http://forums.rimuhosting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230](http://forums.rimuhosting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230) I’ve also got Capistrano running well with this setup. I found Coda Hale’s excellent article to be very useful as well: [http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/](http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/) Hammed ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debian-hosting-setup/65932/3 "2006-08-22T15:01:20Z")
Hammed M. wrote: > Alan, > > I built Apache 2.2 from source on my VPS (rimuhosting) and it went > smoother that I had expected. Later I found this post describing > the process: Hi Hammed, Thanks for that. Is it Debian you run on rimu ? A. ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debian-hosting-setup/65932/4 "2006-08-22T15:04:00Z")
Alan F. wrote: > Hi Hammed, > > Thanks for that. Is it Debian you run on rimu ? > > A. Just scanned the rimu article and it looks like debian to me 🙂 A. ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debian-hosting-setup/65932/5 "2006-08-22T15:06:15Z")
apache 2.2 isnt even in testing (at least not in mine) but it works great when compiled from source. i did it too and its great. i cant give you a link since im not at home, but google for “time for a grown up server apache mongrel\_cluster capistrano” or sth thats like the tutorial is called. just follow it and youve got a nice box 2006/8/22, Alan F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > chance to do it right. My only real constraint is that the > > > – Michael S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [www.siebert-wd.de](http://www.siebert-wd.de) - Gedanken lesen [www.stellar-legends.de](http://www.stellar-legends.de) - Weltraum-Browsergame im Alpha-Stadium ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debian-hosting-setup/65932/6 "2006-08-22T16:17:58Z")
I’m underway installing Apache2.2…but… My default mysql installation seems to kick off 10 mysqld instances when the mysqld\_safe script is invoked. That’s ridiculous for the traffic I’m expecting. I’m having enormous difficulty tracking down where this setting is. Nothing obvious in my.cnf or even inside the mysqld\_safe script. All my googling takes me to mysqld\_multi, which I don’t think I’m using. Again, any help appreciated. A.