Folks-
James Cox, Alexy Kovyrin and I all huddled up and got nginx working
perfectly with mongrel cluster and rails page caching. So all static
and cached files are served fast by nginx and anything not static
gets sent to mongrel.
http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/09/12/new-nginx-conf-with-rails-caching
Nginx(engine-x) is a lightweight webserver that serves static files
*fast*. It also has a very good rewrite and proxy module built in as
well as fcgi(which I haven''t used yet but it is fast as well).
It''s
kinda like pound in that it handles vhosts and reverse-proxy, but it
has the extra capability of serving all your static files and rails
page cached files directly.
Cheers-
-Ezra
