[LRUG] Mongrel

[Martin]

Hi Soledad,

We use Apache 2.2 with Mongrel Cluster for WorkingWithRails.com.

At the moment everything currently runs on one machine. There are 10  
mongrels ready to take requests
each using about 30-40MB of memory. So far it's handled traffic very  
well and we are  pleased with performance.

On the Ruby on Rails Podcasts link that Anthony posted a while back  
there is a screencast on deployment
if you haven't already watched it:
  		
http://podcast.sdruby.com/

Hope that helps,
Best Regards,
Martin.
http://www.workingwithrails.com

On 23 Nov 2006, at 09:33, soledad penadés | sole wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> I am curious. Just discovered what mongrel is some days ago (no  
> kidding, and I haven't been in a bubble these last months), and I  
> wondered what do you use for deploying apps in production servers.
>
> In my hosting they used to recommend an hybrid lighttpd + apache  
> solution (apache proxying requests to lighttpd running my rails app  
> in a different port, with a subdomain), but seems that now the  
> latest trend is mongrel.
>
> The docs say rails does not perform very well concurrently and thus  
> is better to have a "cluster of mongrels". Any experience on this?
>
> The amount of memory that it can use it's kind of scaring me, even  
> if it's a very simple application that I'm thinking of, as it's a  
> shared hosting and they have a "samurai process" which kills  
> resource-consuming processes.
>
> (I was thinking of creating one of those dynamic dns's and host it  
> in my home server, but somehow I'm not fully convinced)
>
> Anyone  feels like sharing experiences in deploying rails apps?
>
>
> Sole the Rails newbie :)
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