Deploying rails application with pound as a Balancer

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Now a days Apache + mod_proxy + mongrel_clusters, Lighttpd + Mongrel cluster and Nginx + mongrel cluster are well known for deploying rails applications. You can also deploy your rails application with pound(a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server). First you need to setup mongrel_clusters for your rails application by issuing … Continue reading Deploying rails application with pound as a Balancer

Engine Yard: Best Hosting for rails applications

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Today I deployed my rails application to Engine Yard server. They have great configuration, ultimate cluster architecture(physical clusters then logical clusters). They have separate servers for SSH, email, web, app etc… . Servers are managed by top architects, I should say they are expert in rails application deployment.