From: Robert Oliver <rwoliver2@...>
Date: 2007-07-05T05:06:15+09:00
Subject: Re: running a huge site

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Apache / Mongrel (or Pound / Mongrel) work much better than Lighttpd /
FastCGI in at least 2 major Rails apps we've worked with, and I suspect that
this is usually the case.  Mongrel is just a wonderfully efficient Ruby
server :)

I'm particularly fond of the Pound / Mongrel combo myself, and Pound does
handle SSL.  If you use Mongrel, you can easily scale as well, as you can
have multiple machines running Mongrels with one Pound over them.

Robert

On 7/4/07, Craig Beck <craigbeck@luckybonza.com> wrote:
>
>
> From what I've seen concerning performance issues, Apache proxying
> to a cluster of mongrels is the way to go. Your apache can handle the
> SSL connection and can load balance across any number of mongrel
> instances across any number of machines. Mongrel itself does not
> handle SSL, but put them behind your firewall and you're set.
>
> Do you have hardware limitations? (i.e. only one server etc?)
>
> Another option that I had briefly experimented with was using a
> Lighttpd-fcgi stack that did way better than Apache-fcgi, although I
> haven't seen much talk of Lighttpd lately.
>
> http://www.lighttpd.net/
>
>
> --
> Craig Beck
>
> AIM: kreiggers
>
>
>
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Robert W. Oliver II
CEO of OCS Solutions, Inc., Web Hosting and Development
http://www.ocssolutions.com/

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