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I've been using nginx for a long time now, and it's been great. Currently, I host my rails app combining nginx and unicorn with bluepill to manage the processe

I've been using nginx for a long time now, and it's been great. Currently, I host my rails app combining nginx and unicorn with bluepill to manage the processes. I just don't trust passenger. Another specialty is that I use UNIX sockets instead of tcp ports for the reverse proxy, something unique to nginx/unicorn I think.

chadr 17y ago
Why don't you trust Passenger? I'm severing about 6 million page views/day with it and it has been extremely reliable and easy to work with.
- teej 17y ago
  The most compelling use case I've seen where Passenger loses to Unicorn is rolling restarts. The biggest trust issue that I've seen is that of source editability - Unicorn and Mongrel are easier to debug and patch, while Passenger requires a commanding knowledge of Apache to fix.
  - chadr 17y ago
    Do you routinely edit the source code of your web server? Just curious since I've never needed to do that.
FooBarWidget 17y ago
Phusion Passenger uses Unix sockets to communicate with backend processes since version 1.0.