RE: Re: How Far Can An Rails App Scale on Textdrive

David Chilton
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:10:46 -0000

This may be a stupid question, but have you switched to the production
environment in config/environment.rb?  My typo blog on TxD was loading
really slowly, with just apache, no lighttpd, until I remembered to do
that.

David


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> bounces-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 6:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Rails] Re: How Far Can An Rails App Scale on Textdrive
>
> But I guess that most of TextDrive customers went there because of
> their Rails support or at least the chance of hosting a rails app on
> the net.
>
> Sure the forums, community are great and we learn a lot. But if it was
> not for having rails hosting support most of us (TxD customers) would
> choose it over other hosting places which cost less?
>
> Speaking for myself i own a VCII account. Only went there because of
> Rails. But most of the time everything is too slow. Apache proxying to
> lighttpd crawls even for a simple plain login page (and have been
> following forun post on how to squeeze some more perfo. from
> configuration) . The best solution is to use the assigned port number
> in the url which is an ugly solution. The same pages on the same
> server but done in php are much faster and easy to setup.
>
> So as TxD is launching a Rails shared hosting orientated service and
> now I also think the VCII plan was a bad choice. Sure all the other
> non-rails features are great, but at the same time useless if one
> doesn''t use them. For these there are other cheaper options out
there.
>
> Maybe TxD should offer some kind of migration to VC## owners to this
> new service even if that means getting less features. Any owner of
> regular account have the chance to cancel it by the end of the month
> or signed period and jump to the new service. We unfortunatly will be
> stucked with the VC## forever, which is a long time I hope.
>
> In the meantime I''m married to TXD and  just have to live with
what I
> have and move along.
> As San Quatre wrote, I''m also feeling buyer''s remorse.
>
>
> Jorge
>
>
>
> On 10/2/05, Ben Myles
<ben.myles-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On 10/3/05, San Quatre
<sanzbox-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > > Oh heavens, talk about buyer''s remorse.
> > >
> > > So buying that TxD lifetime hosting plan was a bad idea?
> >
> > Oh no, I wouldn''t say that. The new service will be purely
for Rails
> > apps only, with no support for the many other (non-rails) features
you
> > get on a normal TxD account. You also won''t have as much
freedom as
> > you do on a normal account - think StrongSpace for rails apps. So
> > there''s pros and cons for both offerings.
> >
> > Ben
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