Fast and easy Rails hosting with Phusion Passenger

Thijs van der Vossen, 09 Apr 2008, 23:43 in ruby on rails, last updated 09 Apr 2008, 23:46 (edit).

Today Ninh Bui and Hongli Lai from Phusion visited the Fingertips office to introduce us to their Passenger Apache module for Rails. We’re very impressed with their work; installation and deployment is fast and easy and everything just works out of the box.

These guys did a really important job by completely removing the deployment hassle that has always been associated with Rails. They’ve made Rails deployment boring.

We’ll be testing Passenger on a server that’s running 15 small to medium Rails apps. You can expect an in-depth article about our experiences when Passenger will be released ‘any day now, honestly’.

If you’re interested in using Passenger in a bigger environment (for example, if you’re a shared hosting provider who wants to offer Rails support), you should get in touch with these guys to talk about the professional services they provide. Not only because they’re smart, but also because they’re a lot of fun to chat with. We really enjoyed their company.

Comments

  1. Stefan Fountain about 15 hours later: (delete | show email)

    Cool that you got to see their work in action. Looking forward to seeing the release. Great stuff guys!

  2. Glenn - Rails Hosting 239 days later: (delete)

    I've just posted a round up of various rails hosts I've used in the past. Passenger certainly seems to be gaining a lot of traction at the moment, and I'm definitely all for outsourcing the management of the system away from the hosting company (if just because it usually works out better value). I hope it all works out well for you, please post an update with your thoughts on both Passenger and the guys at Phusion, or leave it in a comment on this thread: http://rubypond.com/articles/2008/12/04/ruby-on-rails-hosting-round-up/

  3. Glenn - Rails Hosting 239 days later: (delete | show email)

    Oops, I forgot to mention.... I'm most interested in how you've gone with Phusion actually managing your services, not so much on how the system has performed (there are plenty of benchmarks around now)

  4. Manfred Stienstra 242 days later: (delete)

    Glen, we don't hire Phusion for hosting. They were at our office because we were interested in Passenger. In fact, they don't even provide hosting services.

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