New Feature: Passenger (mod_rails)
As of today, all DreamHost customers can enable Passenger (mod_rails) for Ruby on Rails applications.
Briefly, all you do is enable the Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails) option for any existing or new web domain in the DreamHost web control panel. When you then point that domain’s web directory to the public directory of an existing Ruby on Rails application it will work automatically. For more detailed information, check out our Passenger wiki page. You may also want to read additional details in the DreamHost blog post.
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May 13th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Great to hear!
May 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Hey that’s awesome. Just a thought though. Instead of enabling a new feature every week, get the features you have and the clusters you have WORKING instead. I know you are in this industry so you can play with new tech all the time, but as a business your primary objective should be to provide the goods and services you promise your customers in exchange for thier money. I used barely anything of the GBs of space (a couple hundred megs right now), and I use shit all of my supposed TBs of bandwidth, so I don’t see why it should all be so slow. I see you are trying to solve the blingy issue by working with Google to offload the mail server work, but I don’t trust Google enough to allow them sole control over it. As I’ve said before in posts here, it may very well be easier, more reliable and in the long term cheaper to host myself. I can run an Ubuntu based Apache server w/PHP5, mySQL/SQLite, full ruby support, and an X server so I can make use of some very useful web apps which require it as a back end (eyeOS Open Office integration for example).What’ll it cost me for a half decent rig? 1500. a years dedicated line (not supreme but satisfactory)? 300/year. Total control and reliability? PRICELESS.
Hope you fix this shit before I’m ready to go to production (was going to use a VPS, but since it uses the same systems and the same people are maintaining them, I’m thinking not.)
peas.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
_very_ nice. Great for any future systems to deploy here. Right now, we are holding to three FastCGI beasts, but I’d rather not think about whether it likes to be re-touched every now and then
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Noice!
May 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Great feature. I’d love to have Git, too.