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Nginx + Passenger: Easy as pie

Aron posted this about 1 year ago | 0 comments

Redid the old slice this a.m., this time with Rails on Passenger and the lightweight web server Nginx. It could absolutely not have been simpler.

Have to hand it to the Phusion guys: Passenger just keeps getting better and better.

Why did I decide to move from Apache to Nginx? We're thinking of moving to an Nginx stack at work, so I figured I'd give it a whirl to see if there are any obvious problems. None so far. And a quick ab benchmarking shows the old blog is purring along faster than before.

Plus, it has a cool-as-hell logo:

Nginx

More to come.

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I'm Aron Pilhofer and this here is my website. And by website, I really do mean mine.

I wrote it from scratch in Ruby on Rails. I did most of the CSS, so if it's not semantic and standards-based, now you know why. I started with a lovely two-column layout from Matthew James Taylor and went from there.

I also work for The New York Times. If you want more of a bio, check my Linkedin profile or find me on Twitter. You can contact me directly at: aron [at] nytimes [dot] com

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