<p><img src="http://www.modrails.com/phusion_template/logo-trans.png" alt="" /></p> <p>Ever since the beginning, <a href="http://www.modrails.com/">Phusion Passenger</a> (aka, mod_rails) impressed me. I still can&#8217;t believe how such a small team managed to build a simple solution to this complex problem that is <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a> deployment.</p> <p>I&#8217;ve heard in the past about the <a href="http://www.modrails.com/testimonials.html">Passenger benefits</a>. When I first tried it, the only thing I kept thinking was &#8220;this is exactly like <a href="http://phpsucks.net/">PHP</a>! this is exactly like <span class="caps">PHP</span>!&#8221;...</p> <p>Moreover, using Passenger and Apache, you can get much better resource management, since it starts and stops instances based on the load of the website.</p> <p>I think enough time has passed since the public release of Passenger. Since I&#8217;m still running this Rails blog on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_C3">Via C3</a> @ 533Mhz, I decided to replace my previous setup (lighttpd proxying to a <a href="http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/">mongrel</a> instance, monitored by <a href="http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/">monit</a>) to a new Apache2 + Passenger.</p> 112 phusion-passenger-mod_rails 2008-09-21T05:34:00-07:00