# Deployment Infrastructure Stack

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-infrastructure-stack/181433>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 11, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-infrastructure-stack/181433 "2010-01-11T23:51:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-infrastructure-stack/181433/1 "2010-01-11T23:51:25Z")

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Hello Railers,

Getting on application servers, what do you guys use as your  
infrastructure  
backend?

I’ve read a lot about it, seems like apache + passanger is the easiest  
to  
go, right now.

What about nginx + passenger?

What about clusters? Does all this options supports clusters?

Where does proxy servers come into play?

[]'s  
Rodrigo D.

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**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-infrastructure-stack/181433/2 "2010-01-12T00:20:26Z")

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Rodrigo D. wrote:

> Hello Railers,
> 
> Getting on application servers, what do you guys use as your  
> infrastructure  
> backend?
> 
> I’ve read a lot about it, seems like apache + passanger is the easiest  
> to  
> go, right now.
> 
> What about nginx + passenger

Those are the two best options unless you want to use JRuby.

Or you could try Heroku. It isn’t suitable for everyone, but if it is  
suitable for you it’s lovely!

> What about clusters? Does all this options supports clusters?

I’m not sure how clustering works with Passenger. Heroku is  
cloud-based, so no problem.

> Where does proxy servers come into play?

You don’t need them with Passenger.

> []'s  
> Rodrigo D.

Best,  
–Â  
Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-infrastructure-stack/181433/3 "2010-01-12T01:19:12Z")

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What about Heroku?

I don’t get why being cloud-based I wouldn’t need to have a cluster of  
web  
servers. Could you clarify?

[]'s  
Rodrigo D.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser

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**Author:** ![rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df788c/32.png) [@rorra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rorra)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deployment-infrastructure-stack/181433/4 "2010-01-12T01:20:23Z")

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Because the cloud is your cluster of servers. You don’t deal with that  
problem, they do.