From: Chris Lowis Date: 2007-08-13T23:44:53+09:00 Subject: Re: 24 seconds for FASTCGI process to startup??? Is this nor > Any suggestions on how to improve startup time? As mentioned, you'll probably get better help on the rails or dreamhost forums. Having said that, I had a similar problem on dreamhost and solved it using a cron job that periodically accessed my rails app, 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * curl -s http://my.domain.com/ > dev/null Hope that helps, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.