[nikolaplejic]

Thanks for the comment.

I may have done Mono some injustice - it's actually not that hard. The toughest part is installing the latest Mono stable, and that's more of an issue with Ubuntu than with Mono. If you choose another distribution (SuSE and Arch come to mind), you could probably make your life a lot easier as they have more recent versions in their repos.

If you can stay away from the bleeding edge and don't have to install the latest version yesterday, the Badgerports repo solves the first part of the article for you, and you're left with configuring nginx and XSP's FastCGI server which is more-or-less equivalent to any other FastCGI setup with nginx.

I do think it could be easier than it is, but it seems to have more to do with the Ubuntu/Mono relationship than anything else.