Maybe reading some discussions about scaling makes you fuss over it right away, but you don't have to. Initially you can simply install Apache and Passenger (a

Maybe reading some discussions about scaling makes you fuss over it right away, but you don't have to. Initially you can simply install Apache and Passenger (aka. mod_rails). With PHP most people use mod_php. It is true that hosting rails apps was previously (before passenger) not as easy as mod_php. With PHP, people discuss "the stack" too. Here's a post about scaling Joomla (written in PHP) discussing using FastCGI instead of mod_php: http://www.joomlaperformance.com/articles/webcasts/why_mod_php_is_bad_for_performance_52_58.html http://www.joomlaperformance.com/articles/webcasts/why_mod_p...