I’ve been a bit busy earning my keep for the last week, hence the lack of progress on by rails performance tuning project. I will share with you though something I’ve been doing that’s really cool.
A website I’ve been working on allows users to upload files of any size. Let me just repeat that - [...]
Tag Archives: apache
Nginx upload awesomeness
Finishing off my base Ruby on Rails install
So I got sidetracked with Apache in my last post. Here I’m going to finish up the install basics sans automated deployment. At the moment I’m just jumping onto the server and going:
git pull
mongrel_rails cluster::restart
All my server is showing at the moment is this. It’s amazing I know and people will talk about it for [...]
Posted in Performance Project Also tagged capistrano, configuration, log, mongrel, production log analyzer 3 Comments
Configuring and watching Apache.
You may have noted that I installed the apache2-mpm-worker package rather than apache2-mpm-prefork even though I’m using a VPS to host the site. If you google them you’ll find recommendations to only use worker on big beefed-up servers. The reason for my decision is described in the first paragraph on worker’s webpage:
By using threads to [...]
Posted in Performance Project Also tagged apache mpm event, apache mpm prefork, apache mpm worker, apache2ctl, configuration, mod_info, mod_status, virtualhost, vps Leave a comment
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 Also tagged 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 Also tagged aptitude, https, mod_rails, mysql, ruby, ruby enterprise edition, slicehost, ssl, ubuntu Leave a comment
