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 > > -- > =========================================================================== > ==== > Tomas Meinlschmidt, MS {MCT, MCP+I, MCSE, AER}, NetApp Filer/NetCache > > www.meinlschmidt.com www.maxwellrender.cz www.lightgems.cz > =========================================================================== > ==== --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---