Moving day 8
If you're reading this, it means you're looking at the brand-spanking-new Softies on Rails. No more Typo. We're now on Mephisto. No more TextDrive. We're now on our new VPS at Rimuhosting. And, no more lighty. We're now running on Litespeed and Mongrel.
More details on our new setup to follow.
Ah nice! Everyone's switching to Mephisto, and I'm stuck with Typo through my blog hosting plan. Oh well.
Congrats on the move dudes.
I've been thinking of doing the same thing, but Mephisto is consistently broken for me. :( Litespeed - interesting. Did you go with LSAPI or just copy your Apache config?
Congrats on getting away from TextDrive! ;)
Litespeed is just the front-end for static content, proxying off to Mongrel for Rails. I'm going to draft up a step-by-step of how I set it all up. Pretty simple really.
Why not just use Litespeed's Ruby LSAPI module? It'll run faster than mongrel (unix sockets faster than HTTP) and seeing as you're running a blog on single VPS, scaling isn't an issue.
TextDrive+Typo was horribly unreliable for me, so congrats on the move!
I'm using VPSLand, but I'm guessing Rimuhosting is much the same since it seems popular. Either way, I LOVE my VPS!
Michael: no particular reason for Mongrel, just because I wanted to tool around with mongrel_cluster. I may experiment w/ LSAPI instead at some point.
I'm curious what distro you guys went with. Unfortunately Rimuhosting doesn't offer FreeBSD, for which I have perfected my Rails stack :) I'm thinking of going with either RedHat or Debian.
We went with their flavor of Red Hat, and requested their out-of-the-box Rails stack.