# RoR produciton deployment on centOS 5 (64 bit)

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**Created:** [June 25, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-produciton-deployment-on-centos-5-64-bit/107692 "2007-06-25T13:23:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![sanjay\_suri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@sanjay\_suri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sanjay_suri)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-produciton-deployment-on-centos-5-64-bit/107692/1 "2007-06-25T13:23:19Z")

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I am in the process of ordering a machine at [softlayer.com](http://softlayer.com) to host my  
RoR app. The recommended version of Linux seems to be centOS 5 (64 bit).  
Does anyone have any experience with deployment RoR + app + lighttpd on  
this platform?

many thanks.  
-Sanjay

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**Author:** ![sanjay\_suri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@sanjay\_suri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sanjay_suri)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-produciton-deployment-on-centos-5-64-bit/107692/2 "2007-06-25T21:59:38Z")

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CentOS is what we use. The biggest setup we’ve officially deployed  
(not publicly, but internally) on is about 7 machines so far. We run  
several RoR apps working as an SOA setup on that, with Mongrel  
cluster, MySQL (master-master), etc. We don’t use lighttpd. We do  
use Pound currently as a load balancer, but are in the process of  
switching that (our production boxes use F5’s, although that load  
balances across about 60 machines). I believe we’ll be going to Nginx  
(with Swiftiply) shortly, if that will meet all our needs. HAProxy  
would be the other choice, or may be used with that.

CentOS is basically just Red Hat Enterprise with all the logos and  
such swapped out (that’s obviously dramatically simplifying, but  
that’s how I think about it anyway).

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