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(Random Access Memory), 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.
Thanks for choosing us. Check the forum for some tips on mongrel memory management. Enjoy!
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
Thanks for the tip. I may have to check that out. Thanks
I would say, stay away from php, a mess to handle.
Why not try mephisto + “mongrel with event patch”:http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/05/12/event-driven-mongrel-and-swiftiply-proxy + nginx :)