[anthony_franco]

I could not agree with you more here. And they are using InnoDB since it's Rails-based. Wrapping up all the INSERTs into a single query or transaction would really help. I'd also say consolidating the validations into a single SELECT would help, but it seems they threw the validations out when moving to MongoDB.

And on the server level, Passenger isn't optimized for running a single site. I use Unicorn for my Rails app.