Re: How Far Can An Rails App Scale on Textdrive

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:25:07 -0000

On 10/1/05, David Heinemeier Hansson
<david.heinemeier-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> > Does anyone have any insight into how far a rails app can scale on
> > textdrive before you need to move to a dedicated server?
>
> I think its less a question of scale (as in number of hits), but
> rather a question of criticality. Once its absolutely necessary that
> the site is up always, you want go dedicated. No shared host,
> TextDrive or otherwise, can guarantee that foul things won''t
occur.
>
> Of course there are no guarantees with dedicated servers either, but
> at least you know its your problem when things go awry.
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Good points. In my case, I can live with some level of downtime, but
need to quantify it and make a plan for scaling up.

Does anyone have recommendations on dedicated hosts? Or virtual hosts?
If virtual, how is the current stability of virtualized platforms in
Linux/BSD world (e.g. user-mode linux, etc.).

Thanks,
Nick
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Nicholas Van Weerdenburg