Tag Archives: infrastructure

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 [...]

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The Plan.

As I eluded to yesterday I’m going down the Ubuntu track and doing this on SliceHost.
Ubuntu, because basically the wealth of resources available online for this distribution is massive compared to the likes of CentOS/RedHat.  Well, the places where I look anyways.  I use SliceHost for hosting Ponoko and couldn’t praise them more.  For US$20 [...]

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Trying Again.

The topic of what to blog about has popped up again.  I have this undying urge to publicly write about something, but what?  I’ve tried blogging a couple of times but I feel it’s been pretty aimless, hence not keeping up with it.  So I need a plan, something that keeps my interest and something [...]

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