I previously mentioned that I was experiencing pain points with dreamhost and I have finally done something about it. I purchased a slice from slicehost and set up my own Ubuntu box.
So now instead of Apache and FCGI running the show, I am using Lighttpd and Mongrel and I must say, it’s running much faster! In addition to running fast, holy crap is mongrel eating up some memory. I purchased the cheap slice, so I only have 256 megs of RAM, but 1 mongrel instance is taking up about 25% of my memory, and this blog isn’t the only blog I’m going to be hosting.
Because of this, it looks like I may be saying good-bye to Typo and am going to move to WordPress unless anyone out there has any suggestions.
June 12th, 2007 at 1:55 am #slicematt
Thanks for choosing us. Check the forum for some tips on mongrel memory management. Enjoy!
June 29th, 2007 at 11:32 am #Alastair
Have you tried Litespeed (http://litespeedtech.com/)? I have four rails sites running on a 512 slice and they use 6.8% of RAM each (and only when a site is in use otherwise it’s 0%) so for a 256 it would be like 13%. I know typo is pretty resource hungry so it still might use a lot of RAM, but one benefit of Litespeed is that it can spawn multiple processes as needed.
There’s a good tutorial on the wiki http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=pickledonions_pages
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:39 am #K. Adam Christensen
Thanks for the tip. I may have to check that out. Thanks
September 10th, 2007 at 2:27 pm #Forth
I would say, stay away from php, a mess to handle.
Why not try mephisto + mongrel with event patch + nginx