Passenger (mod_rails) versus Thin on nginx
Here’s a good post on Passenger versus Thin, and here is a better benchmark that includes thin on nginx.
Passenger looks to be pretty darn quick. I’m impressed.
Scott Motte
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If the code is inexplicably missing from some of my posts it is because gist.github.com is down at the moment. Check back a little later.
Dinooz | August 5, 2008
What about the memory usage in the server, would it be possible to see the impact also ???
scott | August 5, 2008
Hi Dinooz,
When testing it out myself, I didn’t see much of an uptick for a rarely visited site (like 20mb).
You can try for yourself, and see what you come up with. Here’s a tutorial: http://scottmotte.com/archives/145
I would recommends it for lightly visited sites for clients and things. I believe Ben Hughes and/or a commentor agrees on this at: http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/