Moving to Phusion Passenger
This week I have moved my Ruby websites (which were previously running on Mongrel) to the Phusion Passenger Apache2 module. I have lived without apache for about a year, but I am really happy I switched back to it again. I am still using Nginx as a front-end proxy to serve static assets.
I am very pleased with Passenger because it makes deployment a lot easier! Basically, all Capistrano needs to do now for a deployment is move your app into the DocumentRoot and touch a "restart.txt" file. It supposedly works with any Rack-based web framework. I am using it with Merb and Rails.
I have more available memory and CPU cycles because there are no idle mongrels running, and availability is increased because new instances of the apps are spawned as needed (where memory is shared between multiple instances of an app).
Life is good with passenger!
I've bought a domain
I’ve finally bought my own domain, aczid.nl. Besides the blog, I want to host my music, code and other creations here.
All you readers out there can visit my blog at blog.aczid.nl.
I would like to thank Lasert for providing me with a 2 GHz/256 512 MB Xen slice on a big unclogged eweka tube. It’s a fun and stimulating experience to set up your own front-end/proxy server, subversion, et cetera.
I plan to do most if not all of the site in Ruby on Rails. The blog is served using Nginx, Mongrel and Typo.
