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What is the fastest web server for Rails today? I've always wanted to run something serious with Rails, but the performance always puts me off.

prab97 7y ago
Do you plan to run something more serious than github, basecamp or shopify? Usually it is not rails, which is the bottleneck, but the architecture of your application.
- bbmario 7y ago
  As a matter of fact, yes. Not as big as GitHub, but bigger than Shopify. So the choice of application server matters, as well as how easy it is to scale and provision that server.
  - freehunter 7y ago
    Shopify has 800,000 customers, 4,000+ employees, and handles over $40,000,000,000 per year. And you're building something from scratch, starting today, that is going to be bigger than Shopify in a fast enough timeframe that your Rails server today is the biggest concern?
    - SquareWheel 7y ago
      "Bigger than a shopify website" is a possible interpretation.
  - quickthrower2 7y ago
    Something doesn’t add up: You have have a high profile project that is bigger than Shopify (!) but you ask a question that seems like the first question you should type into google to research this if you were interested.
dwheeler 7y ago
I don't know if it's the fastest, but I've had good success using Puma with Ruby on Rails in a real-world production site. That said, if performance is your goal, then the web server is only a small part of it. In my experience, the way to get a high-performing Ruby on Rails application is primarily through fragment caching and using a CDN. You can get excellent performance with very little effort that way.
bbmario 7y ago
Wow, got down voted for asking a question on which web application server I should use with Rails today. Really?
- freehunter 7y ago
  Because people are tired of hearing "Rails is so slow". It's been a dead horse for 10 years now, in 2019 it just feels like you're trolling.
wasd 7y ago
Puma is definitely the fastest or one of the fastest. It's also the default in Rails now. https://github.com/puma/puma https://github.com/puma/puma
WJW 7y ago
You should probably ask Github, they run their main site on Rails.
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jacobsenscott 7y ago
Any server is fast enough. If your web app is literally doing anything other than rendering empty pages the time a request spends in the web server will be an insignificant fraction of your total response time.

prab97 7y ago

Do you plan to run something more serious than github, basecamp or shopify? Usually it is not rails, which is the bottleneck, but the architecture of your application.

bbmario 7y ago
As a matter of fact, yes. Not as big as GitHub, but bigger than Shopify. So the choice of application server matters, as well as how easy it is to scale and provision that server.
- freehunter 7y ago
  Shopify has 800,000 customers, 4,000+ employees, and handles over $40,000,000,000 per year. And you're building something from scratch, starting today, that is going to be bigger than Shopify in a fast enough timeframe that your Rails server today is the biggest concern?
  - SquareWheel 7y ago
    "Bigger than a shopify website" is a possible interpretation.
- quickthrower2 7y ago
  Something doesn’t add up: You have have a high profile project that is bigger than Shopify (!) but you ask a question that seems like the first question you should type into google to research this if you were interested.

dwheeler 7y ago

I don't know if it's the fastest, but I've had good success using Puma with Ruby on Rails in a real-world production site. That said, if performance is your goal, then the web server is only a small part of it. In my experience, the way to get a high-performing Ruby on Rails application is primarily through fragment caching and using a CDN. You can get excellent performance with very little effort that way.

bbmario 7y ago

Wow, got down voted for asking a question on which web application server I should use with Rails today. Really?

freehunter 7y ago
Because people are tired of hearing "Rails is so slow". It's been a dead horse for 10 years now, in 2019 it just feels like you're trolling.

wasd 7y ago

Puma is definitely the fastest or one of the fastest. It's also the default in Rails now. https://github.com/puma/puma https://github.com/puma/puma

WJW 7y ago

You should probably ask Github, they run their main site on Rails.

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jacobsenscott 7y ago

Any server is fast enough. If your web app is literally doing anything other than rendering empty pages the time a request spends in the web server will be an insignificant fraction of your total response time.