# Mogrel Clusters with apache on Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mogrel-clusters-with-apache-on-windows/91212>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 5, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mogrel-clusters-with-apache-on-windows/91212 "2007-04-05T17:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrewonrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@andrewonrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewonrails)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mogrel-clusters-with-apache-on-windows/91212/1 "2007-04-05T17:56:09Z")

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I have read some posts that give conflicting info on whether it is  
possible to run mongrel clusters on Windows with apache.

Is it possible?, if possible is it stable?

I don’t have an option of \*nix.

Andrew

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**Author:** ![andrewonrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ab992/32.png) [@andrewonrails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andrewonrails)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mogrel-clusters-with-apache-on-windows/91212/2 "2007-04-06T04:06:15Z")

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You can deploy a cluster of Mongrels on Windows, sure, but the  
Mongrel cluster manager script doesn’t work. I run a number of  
Mongrel ‘clusters’ on Windows Server 2k3. Each server has 4 Mongrels  
per core, just a simple guideline, which are installed as services  
with each listening on a different port. Connections are delegated by  
a single Apache 2.2 instance running mod\_proxy\_balancer.  
It’s really quite a vanilla setup these days, for both Linux/  
whatever and Windows. The only catch with Windows is that you have to  
manage everything manually as tools such as mongrel cluster and  
Capistrano aren’t available. Though it’s really not that big of a  
deal as you simply create a few batch files for each operation and you  
derive much of the value that the Linux/whatever tools provide.  
Quite stable and nicely performant. As long as you don’t mind the  
inherent 10%-20% performance penalty of Ruby on Windows.