After watching a rather sloppy rugby game in which the All Blacks couldn’t hold onto a ball to save themselves I jumped back online to find my gem updating process was still using lots of memory and no cpu. After being amused by the comparison to the rugby game I killed it and got slicehost [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Trouble upgrading rubygems.
A little more fiddling and I discovered that when I installed vim-full an incomplete install of ruby 1.8 was also placed on the system. Aptitude thought ruby was installed, but it wasn’t. Hence two posts ago me saying that Ubuntu was weird and I had to reinstall ruby.
A second problem with what I installed was [...]
Why not passenger / mod_rails?
While I was holidaying over the weekend I received an interesting question via email, something along the lines of:
Can you give me a quick overview on what the trouble was running passeneger/enterprise ruby over multiple servers? I’m half way through setting up our infrastructure with 1 load balancer passing on to 2 web servers… running [...]
Posted in Performance Project Tagged apache, infrastructure, load balance, mod_rails, ruby enterprise edition 2 Comments
Apache, It Works!
I was looking through the slicehost article section the other night and bumped into an awesome article on initial configuration steps for ubuntu. If you don’t know what your doing, you should go take a look at that.
So, anyway. I’ve got a server up and going doing absolutely nothing, and I’m assuming you do too [...]
Posted in Performance Project Tagged apache, aptitude, https, mod_rails, mysql, ruby, ruby enterprise edition, slicehost, ssl, ubuntu Leave a comment
Getting the basics done
So I’ve setup my SliceHost account and have created a server (the 256mb of ram one for $20 a month). First off though I needed to the usual house keeping when setting up a new server.
The Centos image at slicehost is bare basic and only comes with openssh, where as the Ubuntu image has a [...]
