# Re: Virtual Machine for Radiant

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-virtual-machine-for-radiant/108235>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [June 30, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-virtual-machine-for-radiant/108235 "2007-06-30T18:29:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9a140/32.png) [@Victor\_Cosby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Victor_Cosby)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-virtual-machine-for-radiant/108235/1 "2007-06-30T18:29:44Z")

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Keith,

Deprec saved me a lot of time setting up my Rails stack on Ubuntu. It  
defaults to Apache for proxying to mongrels but then I setup Nginx  
separately (I’ve heard there’s an nginx recipe is in the works).

I’ve been happy with nginx for it’s lighter memory footprint and easier  
configuration. English documentation is sparse but getting better. I’m  
currently hosting one low traffic Radiant site – 2 mongrels about 40mb  
each, using ImageMagick, ImageScience, and a slightly modified version  
of  
_your_ assets manager extension (thanks!) 😉 – plus one other higher  
traffic Rails site.

Here are some articles I found helpful.

[http://del.icio.us/vcosby/nginx](http://del.icio.us/vcosby/nginx)  
[http://del.icio.us/vcosby/deprec](http://del.icio.us/vcosby/deprec)  
[http://wiki.slicehost.com/](http://wiki.slicehost.com/)

The Slicehost wiki has good info on VPS setup and there’s a free  
Peepcode  
screencast on using deprec in there somewhere.

There’s also a new gem for generating nginx config files but I haven’t  
tried  
it yet.  
[http://errtheblog.com/post/3908](http://errtheblog.com/post/3908)

Cheers and good luck,  
Victor