Phusion Passenger
Posted by ben, Mon Jun 02 02:57:00 UTC 2008
We have been testing out mod_rails Phusion Passenger for a few weeks now on our staging server and one production server that hosts our company website and blog. Today we finally got our hands on the Ruby Enterprise Edition early release, so we are now running the full enterprise passenger stack and I must say that I am loving not having to deal with so many deploy issues like configuring monit, nginx & mongrel_cluster configs for every new app and for almost any configuration change, which we find almost unnecessary now since passenger is handling how many app instances to spawn up and it keeps an eye on instances that crash or get hosed for some reason.
We are able to able to really make better use of our VPS slices with the memory reduction we get from running passenger VS nginx+mongrel.
checkout this screencast or head over to the Phusion Passenger website to try it out for yourself.