mongrels, everywhere

[Don Kelly]

I host a number of rails applications, all running under their own
mongrels. Most of these are very low-traffic sites used by friends.
What I'm finding is that, even though the apps are idle, they consume
more memory than I would like, limiting my ability to run more
low-traffic apps. Is there a way to unite the mongrels or is there a
better http server that I could be using that's more memory efficient?

Don/

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[Jevin Maltais]

Just to throw a curve ball out there. If the sites are minimal with
low traffic, have you considered Heroku? They have a free package if
your database is < 5MB

Doesn't solve the memory issue but they do have New Relic RPM that
could help you debug the issues.

Jevin

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[Cody Fauser]

Don,

We got a lot of memory savings by using Phusion Passenger in
conjunction with Ruby Enterprise Edition. See
http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/faq.html for details on the why.
There are more benefits to Passenger than just a smaller footprint as
described here: http://www.modrails.com/.

The install is dead simple and the product reliable. We're running all
of Shopify off of REE and Passenger.

However, as Jevin mentioned, Heroku is probably a great option for
your situation.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Don Kelly <kar...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Don Kelly]

Hmmm. Both seem like good options. I may encourage some of the friends
that I host to move to Heroku. When I get the time, I'll have to
expore REE/passenger (which will mean moving to apache or nginx -
currently using lighttpd).

Thanks.
Don/

[Cody Fauser]

Definitely try out Heroku. It is a killer service. All you have to do
is push your app there with git and they take care of the rest.