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

Ben Bleything
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:14:14 -0000

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005, Jorge Sousa wrote:
> 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.

The slow login problems is a problem between the way Apache proxies
keep-alive requests and lighttpd handles said requests.  I''ll betcha if
you set the following line in your lighttpd config, you''ll see better
performance.  It fixed every slowness issue I was having:

server.max-keep-alive-requests = 0

As for the rest, don''t know what to tell you.  I use TxD pretty much
exclusively for Rails hosting (4 apps + trac/svn, but that''s only out
of
convenience).  I understand how you feel, I''ve been disappointed with
TxD recently too... On the other hand, I don''t have a VC account so
I''m
not sure I get to complain as much as you do.

Hopefully time will smooth it out.  TxD has shown themselves to be
remarkably customer-focused, so your wishes may not go unanswered.

Ben