Setting up Rails for Virtual Hosting?

[Kurt Griffiths]

That may be a good way to start out, simply because you will be up and
running a little faster (less to configure). However, I would still
recommend moving to Nginx at some point. I've found that there is a lot of
variability between web server performance, even for static content. The
difference becomes more and more obvious the more traffic you have. And even
for low-traffic sites, Nginx will make the website feel more "snappy" for
your users.

Of course, all this depends on your ratio of static-to-dynamic content. And
how much Russian you understand. ;)
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Carl Youngblood <carl at youngbloods.org>
wrote:

> What about simply serving them with Apache?  I assume that static
> content would be nearly equally fast on all web servers.  Wrong?
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Kurt Griffiths
>  <kurt.griffiths at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One more note - even if you use Passenger + Apache (because it *is*
> lovely)
> >  for the rails app, you will still see significant performance benefits
> by
> >  serving your static content (images, css, cached items) via Nginx.
> >
> >
> >
> >  On 4/23/08, Kurt Griffiths <kurt.griffiths at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I would highly recommend that you try Nginx. It is significantly
> faster
> >  > than the other common servers we have tested at Sebo, both as a proxy
> and
> >  > for serving static content directly.
> >  >
> >  > On 4/23/08, Steve Morrey <lists at itconsultingplus.com> wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > <SNIP>
> >  > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Carl Youngblood <
> carl at youngbloods.org>
> >  > > wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > Those instructions are quite old.  I would not recommend using
> >  > > lighttpd.  Until recently, the setup of choice was to use some kind
> of
> >  > > software-based load balancer (such as mod_proxy_balancer) in front
> of
> >  > > a few mongrel instances, but now there is an easier way.  There is
> a
> >  > > new apache module called passenger that is very easy to set up:
> >  > >
> >  > > http://www.modrails.com/
> >  > >
> >  > > </SNIP>
> >  > >
> >  > > Holy mother of pearl!
> >  > > Thats awesome Carl, thanks!
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > Sincerely,
> >  > > Steve
> >  > >
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