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As a (primarily) developer who is also in the DevOps "space", I'm wondering if anyone knows Phusion's usage popularity over "rolling your own" (unicorn) or Paas
by fideloper 12y ago
As a (primarily) developer who is also in the DevOps "space", I'm wondering if anyone knows Phusion's usage popularity over "rolling your own" (unicorn) or Paas (Heroku) usage?
The enterprise features seem really great, although per server charging is definitely in the Enterprise range of $$$ !
- mperham 12y agoPeople dramatically underestimate the amount of time necessary to support a complex project like Passenger. Phusion earns every dime of that Enterprise pricing.
- WillPostForFood 12y agoI think they built their popularity by being the first really easy way to use Rails with Apache. And by being a solid, well documented, easy to use product.
- subsection1h 12y agoHeroku and Passenger aren't mutually exclusive.[1] Heroku users must choose an app server. Heroku currently recommends Puma,[2] even for apps that aren't thread safe.[3] I don't know why they don't recommended Passenger. [1] https://github.com/phusion/passenger-ruby-heroku-demo https://github.com/phusion/passenger-ruby-heroku-demo [2] https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/594 https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/594 [3] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applications-with-the-puma-web-server#config https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applic...