Tag Archives: nginx

Quick update: Ravelry runs on

Just a little something to get the ol’ blog rolling again.

Last March, I wrote a tiny post that listed a few of the pieces that run Ravelry along with my opinion of each. Here is a update to that list. The biggest change? I’ve been running Phusion Passenger + Apache as application servers for […]

Load Balancing

NOTE - Winter 2008: We are now running Phusion Passenger / Apache instead of Thin. Everything else remains the same.

oops

I’ll get the embarrassing part out of the way first. So… Ravelry had over an hour’s worth of hiccups and short periods of downtime yesterday. The cause of the problem was just a […]

Running Rails

Another dry sysadmin/deployment related post. If any of you Ravelry people want to hear about something in particular, please leave a comment

A few quick notes about how I’m actually running my app:

Web server : nginx. I ran Apache for a while before I switched to nginx. Nginx uses far less resources under load […]