lighthttpd working best in deploy environment.

--- In rails_artist@yahoogroups.com, "hasan83bd" <hasan83bd@...> wrote:
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>
> for last couple of days, i was struggle with rails deployment related
> issue, so far i was happy with mongrel backed and apache reverse proxy
> front configuration.
>
> so last night, i found mongrel is surprisingly slow for serving static
> content, like javascripts, images, and styles files. so later i set
> apache for serving static files. now it seems out performing ;)
>
> anyway, i was wondering about mongrel and how does it works in
> production deployment. as we know (who use java backed application
> server in production environment), any java backed application container
> are configurable. where we can define the maximum limit of thread pool
> size.
>
>
> but i didn't find this type of thing over mongrel, later few of the
> following urls, really helped me to understand how mongrel works in
> production environment. the concept is very simple.
>
> every mongrel worker is a standalone instance of mongrel and every
> mongrel instances are listening to a specific port. so i have to setup a
> reverse proxy or a load balancer which will be used to pick up the right
> mongrel instance. for all session affinity shake, there must be some
> solutions, this is what i have to figure out later. (hopefully after
> getting my laptop)
>
>
> here are the resource links -
>
> pound - used as load balancer and reverse proxy service
> <http://www.apsis.ch/pound/index_html> .
>
> jared's guide how to install pound
> <http://www.jaredrichardson.net/blog/2006/11/21/#installing-pound>
>
> Grails vs rails fight, though it doesn't worth rather than few
> configuration learning
> <http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/Grails+vs+Rails+Benchmark> .
>
> hope these will be helpful for my future reminding :)
>