Comments on: Setting up a production rails server step-by-step

By: Yan Pritzker

Yan Pritzker — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:14:14 +0000

Not to pimp my own wares but you should check out elastic server – http://es.cohesiveft.com – it’s something we’ve been working on to let you build ready to go virtual servers (vmware, xen, amazon ec2) in just a couple clicks with whatever you want on it. We have some ready to go RoR packages (although they’re not yet up to date with the latest and greatest).

You can build and launch the server on ec2 right away and use its built in patching capabilities to make auto updates to the server. It’s private beta right now but if you’re interested click the signup code link on the front page and we’ll get you in!

The basic community edition is totally free so you can try it out

thanks

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Setting up a production rails server step-by-step | Weycrest Knowledgebase — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:03:51 +0000

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By: unixmonkey

unixmonkey — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:25:23 +0000

Paul Sullivan:

I don’t know how comfortable you are doing server admin type stuff, but provided you stay on top of security stuff, this kind of setup should run without issue for a good long time. You might want to use more than 2 mongrels for anything getting more than casual traffic. The slicehost documentation carefully explains everything you are doing, so it should be pretty self-explanatory what you need to keep an eye on.

Add on monit for scripting notification emails or for restarting mongrels if you think you really want to set it and forget it.

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By: Paul Sullivan

Paul Sullivan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:02:43 +0000

Question: if I were to follow these instructions, how much knowledge and upkeep would be required to keep a rails app running on it? I’m trying to figure out the best way to host rails for someone without a lot of technical experience and not an abundance of time to spend figuring it all out.

Any suggestions?

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links for 2008-01-25 « Accidental Technologist — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:20:18 +0000

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By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:11:40 +0000

Thanks for the write up. I too set mine up manually and took (sketchy) notes. There are a few things I missed too, so will go through and make sure I’ve covered everything.