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by FooBarWidget 4789 days ago
Check out this new Phusion Passenger 4.x series. It has much, MUCH improved performance, stability and features that rivals that of Unicorn, Puma, etc. It's used by the likes of New York Times, Symantec, AirBnB, etc.

The main reason why people use Phusion Passenger is because of its ease of use. The way it integrates into Apache and Nginx is unlike other app servers and saves a lot of administration time and effort.

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Our reason to use the Passenger Enterprise version is that it's the only truly reliable application server for Ruby that handles threads good enough. The administration tools and how it handles stuff like deployment upgrades to a huge application server are done remarkably better than in any other Ruby app server.

Update process loads our application once and forks it to all the workers like Unicorn does. Puma wanted to load the application as many times as we had workers, which caused a huge spike every time we deployed.

Same goes to the thread handling. It really seems Passenger is the only Ruby server able to handle massive loads with threaded Rails app. Money well spent.

Thanks for the good words. :) Do you mind if we use this statement as a testimonial, with your real name and company name?
Sure, but please ask from the people who actually did the purchase before writing anything.

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