Setup to replace Lighttpd + FCGI?

Rails
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I’m considering moving from my Lighttpd + FCGI setup to some server
(Apache, Nginx, or Lighttpd) balancing a Mongrel cluster. As you
know, everyone has different opinions about which setup is best.

I have 512 MB VPS, currently running the LxAdmin control panel.

I have two questions:

  1. Can anyone with similar setup recommend a good Mongrel cluster-
    based setup for a VPS of this size?

  2. One way I’m looking to free up resources is by not using a control
    panel, say if I move to Nginx. I’m certainly not a seasoned admin,
    but I can manage via the command line. How necessary is a control
    panel, in your experience, given that I want to manage a single Rails
    app that on my VPS? What features are most necessary?
    (I think i would need to manage DNS and database backups at least,
    right?)

Thanks so much for your insight.

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I’m considering moving from my Lighttpd + FCGI setup to some server
(Apache, Nginx, or Lighttpd) balancing a Mongrel cluster. As you
know, everyone has different opinions about which setup is best.

I have 512 MB VPS, currently running the LxAdmin control panel.

I have two questions:

If you don’t have an insane amount of traffic (and I’m guessing you
don’t
if it’s a single 512mb vps) you might want to look into Litespeed as
well.
The free (not open source, but free) version has a restriction of 150
connections (not 150 reqs/sec, but simultaneous connections).

One nice thing about it is it can automatically start/stop rails
processes
as needed…

I use it to run several rails apps that get little traffic (ie. just me
usually) and 99% of the time no rails processes are running at all…

-philip

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Thanks. But I suppose like many people, I’m hoping to have a lot more
traffic someday!
So I was looking for a good foundation which will scale relatively
easily.

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Hi Rohit

On Oct 10, 1:39 am, Rohit [email protected] wrote:

I’m considering moving from my Lighttpd + FCGI setup to some server
(Apache, Nginx, or Lighttpd) balancing a Mongrel cluster. As you
know, everyone has different opinions about which setup is best.

I have 512 MB VPS, currently running the LxAdmin control panel.

I have two questions:

  1. Can anyone with similar setup recommend a good Mongrel cluster-
    based setup for a VPS of this size?

cch:There is an excellent book which can be purchased as a
PDF(Pragmatic Programmers).
Just google for “Rails Deployment”.Just read itlast nite and there is
a section that covers VPS

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Thanks. But I suppose like many people, I’m hoping to have a lot more
traffic someday!
So I was looking for a good foundation which will scale relatively
easily.

Who isn’t :slight_smile: But… at 150 max connections… let’s say each connection
takes a second (which is probably too long, but for arguments sake)…

150 * 60 * 60 * 24 = 12,960,000 pages per day.

That’s a lot of traffic. Assuming of course it’s all nicely spread
out
:slight_smile:

I’m not pushing you into litespeed, it just seems to work pretty well
and
have a high enough ceiling that most folks aren’t going to hit it any
time
soon.