Stability Woes

Apologies if you’ve been trying to access one of the posts here over the last few days and received any one of the various Internal Server Error, or Service Unavailable error messages.

It seems that Lighty (`mod_proxy` – I also tried running the latest 1.5.x code from the Subversion trunk to use `mod_proxy_core` but that killed Mongrel everytime), Mongrel and Rails still aren’t playing too well together. Without being able to regularly monitor the server, I’ve not been able to guarantee any kind of uptime.

I’ve reverted back to good ol’ FCGI. So far it seems been pretty good, and I don’t seem to remember having to restart much at all before I went down the Mongrel route.

I can now (finally) get back to adding a ranking (to indicate potential relevance) to the Related Articles plugin I developed for Typo.