I'll take a look at that, thanks.  My hosting provider says that
passenger is slower than mongrel in a shared environment, because of
the delay when processes have to be restarted.

But ultimately I will have the same question: how can I measure when
traffic is too much for my shared host?

On Mar 10, 8:42 pm, Tom Z Meinlschmidt <to...@meinlschmidt.org> wrote:
> Ed wrote:
> > I have a rails app with a growing user base.  Right now it is on a
> > single mongrel instance on a shared server.  Is there a quantifiable
> > method I can use to measure when I need to add mongrel instances, or
> > move to a dedicated server?  Are there rules of thumb for how many
> > users or page hits an instance can support?  Or is it solely
> > subjective, based on when the app starts to "feel" slow?
>
> Ed, why not to move to phusion passenger? It's fast and intended for
> heavier load than mongrel (even in cluster)
>
> tom
>
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