Recommended webserver for deploying Rails

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Dear all,

What is the best architecture in terms of performance for Rails. Is
lighttpd + mongrel the most recommended deployment architecture for
Rails? Or is there any better architecture that outperform this
architecture?

Thank you very much in advance.

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phusion passenger + apache?
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Joshua P. wrote:

Dear all,

What is the best architecture in terms of performance for Rails. Is
lighttpd + mongrel the most recommended deployment architecture for
Rails? Or is there any better architecture that outperform this
architecture?

Thank you very much in advance.

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On Mar 18, 2:40 am, Joshua P. [email protected] wrote:

Dear all,

What is the best architecture in terms of performance for Rails. Is
lighttpd + mongrel the most recommended deployment architecture for
Rails? Or is there any better architecture that outperform this
architecture?

As far as I can tell the big 2 these days are nginx + mongrel, apache

  • passenger and probably quite a few people using apache + mongrel.

Fred

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Well, in my experience there are probably three ways to go:

apache + passenger*
apache + mongrel/thin
nginx + mongrel/thin

Personally, I run with just apache + passenger from this point
forward. It has done everything I need, and has had zero downtime due
to the configuration, and more due to my idiotic way of handling
airflow inside the server case.

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Joshua P. wrote:

Dear all,

What is the best architecture in terms of performance for Rails. Is
lighttpd + mongrel the most recommended deployment architecture for
Rails?
[…]

I think most people are either using Passenger (my current choice) or
one of the Thin-based solutions. JRuby inside a Java servlet container
might be worth looking at too; I’ve never gone that route, but JRuby is
supposed to be very fast. OTOH, Java servlet containers can be a pain.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
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http://www.marnen.org