Tag Archives: mod_rails

Silence = Stupid Busy

So, um yeah, it’s been a little while since my last blog entry.  This is to say that I’m still here, things have been too hectic but I’m starting to get a handle on everything again.
I was already quite busy when everything stepped up a couple of gears around February due to going into business [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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