Large scale deployment

Rails Deployment
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Lets start with the last thing u said. Litespeed has basically the same
kind
of stability of apache. Do you really need monit to monitor apache?
Maybe if
you’re seriously having some kind of major app that will break the
underlying web server, then yes, but for 99% of us, no.

I think what you’re forgetting I can also set litespeed to adjust based
on
memory AND process limits per user.

I can set 2 min and 10 max and forget about it. Litespeed adds more if
necessary, then based on capacity, gracefully ramps down if I dont need
them, thus leaving the system for other things. A great example is if
I’m
running CRON’s in the middle of the night, this is when my traffic is
low.
Why would I want 10 instances running? I can use the resources used from
not
having 8 useless instances running doing nothing.

My point in all of this is not to knock the great open source software
out
there which I have used and will continue to do so, but just to point
out
that Litespeed is an extremely credible contender for Rails. It really
makes
it super simple to get going with top-notch performance as a great side
bonus. For guys like me who want to spend time coding and dealing with
the
strategic issues on my site (our core competence), Litespeed is a
godsend.

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The point is if I know that my theorerical maximums are 10 mongrels
(lsapi clients). Then once I set that, I no longer have to worry about it.

But why wouldn’t you want all 10 running if 10 is the maximum?

Not as useful for consistently large traffice sites, but to take it
another direction, I love litespeed for the fact that I can run several
Rails sites on my little 1gb box that also does postfix/postgresql/mysql
and all sorts of other things and not have to have 6-7 mongrel processes
running constantly. The sites are so small that most of the time there
aren’t any lsapi processes running.

True, this isn’t large scale, but it’s a nice feature :slight_smile:

I also suspect that we all may have different ideas of large scale :slight_smile:

And the gravy on the steak? You don’t need monit for all of that.

But you do need monit to monitor lightspeed itself, so you’ve gained
nothing. :slight_smile:

What monitors monit? :slight_smile: