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Null, how fast was your old box and how much memory did it have?

The old box (which happens to also be the new box) is an Athlon 2400+ with 512 Megs of RAM. The usual CPU load average is <1%, so I figured an upgrade isn't imperative. :-) Today's hardware changes only brought a 400GB RAID0 array for more space & increased speed for a couple of large databases. Besides NAO, the machine hosts a few other internet projects and is also used as a file server and to encode MPEG videos.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

Since we have established that the new NAO is going to be a Ruby on Rails app what server are you using? Are you still using Apache + FastCGI or Lighttpd + FastCGI? Just curious, I converted my Apache setup last night to Lighttpd and I find it much more responsive considering how minimal my server specs are.

Are you still using Apache

Yes... mainly because every other project on the same server is non-ruby and relies on Apache. And since processing power isn't an issue as far as it concerns the web server...

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Sep 03, 2005.

non-ruby and relies on Apache

I didn't make it very clear did I. Lighttpd can do all of the normal crap webservers can do as well. Perl, PHP, etc..

How does your other apps depend exclusively on Apache? What exactly do they do?

How does your other apps depend exclusively on Apache? What exactly do they do?

Oh, they might also run on another server - they rely mostly on standard stuff, like mpd_php, mod_rewrite and the like (and of course I use mod_gzip).
But since I'm very happy with Apache, I just don't see why I should abandon it in favour of something else that I don't know.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

I just don't see why I should abandon it in favour of something else that I don't know.

Yeah no worries. But lighttpd has all those extensions as well.

But lighttpd has all those extensions as well.

Figured as much. But I really dig Apache, and you know - never change a running system :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

never change a running system

aren't you contradicting yourself here? You did already change the server. Haha...

Apache 1 or 2?

you didn't mention if you installed FastCGI for better Ruby/Rails support.

You did already change the server. Haha...

Yes, I did... I wanted/needed all those cool FreeBSD 5.x toys like atacontrol, UFS2 (with ACLs!) and the such. And what better time for an OS upgrade than when you have to throw out the old system HDD anyway?