Phusion Passenger October 2008

Introducing Phusion Passenger to the crowd at the October 2008 Central Oregon Web Professionals User Group

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1. Phusion Passenger (aka mod_rails/mod_rack ) Mark Amerine Turner - COWPU October 23, 2008
2. Rails Deployment Options Apache 2 + Mongrel (Scales Well, Mongrel issues) Nginx + Mongrel (Faster Static Content, Mongrel still has issues) Apache 2 + Passenger (Fast, Easy)
3. Why I don’t like Mongrel Slow Restarts make managing memory bloat sucky. Mongrel killing slow connections zombies the process on occasion. Outside (read: Push) load balancing is unreliable. I have more.. but I just added this slide before this talk.
4. Why Passenger? Gets rid of small annoyances. Fewer Parts Comfort Levels Easier Deployment
5. Demo Install Passenger Create new app Deploy to Server
6. Passenger Configuration PassengerMaxPoolSize 60 PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp 0 PassengerPoolIdleTime 600
7. Passenger Monitoring passenger-memory-stats passenger-status
8. Questions?