LiteSpeed for Ruby on Rails

Rails
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Wow! Has anyone tried LiteSpeed for serving Ruby on Rails? Very easy
setup. I was done in 5 minutes on Linux (Fedora Core 5). I am
completely amazed at this little web server. I followed the Wiki
instructions and bang, I’m up and running in no time.

http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed_wiki:ruby_rails_easy

It even ties into Mongrel if you want.

Very cool stuff going on at LiteSpeed.
(I’m not affiliated with LiteSpeed, just very impressed with what they
got)

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I’d like to use it, but I can’t see myself paying $400 for a web server.

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On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 02:46 +0200, Mark H. wrote:

(I’m not affiliated with LiteSpeed, just very impressed with what they
got)

Yep, litespeed is a great solution. I really wish they’d quit focusing
on its speed and instead start marketing it as the perfect solution for
in-house configurations by people with limited deployment knowledge.
Targeting the “medium” sized in-house development shops that need
commercial support and an “Enterprise Application Server” before their
software can even touch a production system would sell litespeed like
crazy.

They could totally own the “But all we have are BLANK administrators!”
market. Setting BLANK to “WebSphere”, “IIS”, “.NET”, “MCSE”, “WebLogic”,
“Oracle”, or whatever management thinks up.

But, instead they insist on comparing their performance with other
servers, which really only developers care about and developers don’t
buy the software.

Anyway, I like litespeed too. I’m telling people who have no sysadmin
experience at all to go grab it. $400 is nothing compared to time lost
learning Unix wizardry.

–
Zed A. Shaw

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 – Come get help.

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thousands in my case…

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Robert G. wrote:

I’d like to use it, but I can’t see myself paying $400 for a web server.

The standard version is free.

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Zed S. wrote:

Anyway, I like litespeed too. I’m telling people who have no sysadmin
experience at all to go grab it.

It’s not only a good solution for people without experience.

$400 is nothing compared to time lost learning Unix wizardry.

The standard version (limited to 300 concurrent conenctions) is free.