Phusion Passenger 5.0.1 “Raptor” Released

https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/03/04/phusion-passenger-5-0-1-released/

by cmpb • 11 years ago

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ohcoder• 11 years ago

Cool!

pastullo• 11 years ago

worth upgrading from unicorn for a few thousands visitors per month?

Xorlev2• 11 years ago

Nope. You'll be fine on whatever you're running on. Even Webrick.

tinco• 11 years ago

Just to be clear (not sure if you're kidding) but people use Passenger (and production application servers in general) not just because they meet some minimum throughput threshold.

Passenger takes care of keeping your application alive, makes sure slow clients don't break it, automatically handles concurrency and has low latency. That's just the basics, there's a lot of configuration options for the more serious deployments.

fideloper• 11 years 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• 11 years ago

People dramatically underestimate the amount of time necessary to support a complex project like Passenger. Phusion earns every dime of that Enterprise pricing.

WillPostForFood• 11 years ago

I 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• 11 years ago

Heroku 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

[2] https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/594

[3] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applic...

ForHackernews• 11 years ago

I really like Passenger for my dev servers, because you can easily run both Ruby (Rails) and Python (WSGI) applications under it. I'm not aware of another mainstream app server that offers that flexibility.

fleetfox• 11 years ago

I'm not sure if you can call it mainstream but what about uwsgi?

bshimmin• 11 years ago

And Node.js too.

mrinterweb• 11 years ago

Don't forget that you can also run Node.js apps on Passenger.

berfarah• 11 years ago

Awesome, looking forward to their docker image with this. Using their images has made my projects a lot easier to bootstrap.

moe• 11 years ago

...and it still doesn't log to syslog nor stdout?

fny2• 11 years ago

Is the 4x performance improvement in all the charted benchmarks exclusively an enterprise benefit?

It would be really nice to a see comparison including both the open source and enterprise versions.

FooBarWidget2• 11 years ago

No, it is in open source.

Everything you read about is open source, unless explicitly documented as enterprise only.

fny2• 11 years ago

So what about the hybrid concurrency model--specifically the multithreading, which seems to be enterprise only? Would one expect even higher throughput than what's shown in the charts?

cheald• 11 years ago

It's because of Passenger's built-in short-term HTTP cache, which is included in the open-source version. That said, the performance gain from the charts is from caching; it's not going to make your Ruby code run 4x faster. Be sure you read https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/02/09/turbocaching-security-cha... to make sure you don't accidentally end up serving things from a cache that you intended to not be cached/shared.

kolev• 11 years ago

Great news, but I'm a bit disappointed that Debian/Ubuntu repo is not available on launch day.

dang• 11 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8657982

Phusion Passenger 5.0.1 “Raptor” Released

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