Well I’m not so sure that Lighty, and FCGI running Rails and PHP isn’t such a great mix after all. After approximately a day all goes a little crazy and everything becomes largely unresponsive. So I’m taking drastic measures, and trying yet another web server.
This time, I’m giving Litespeed a go. It’s a commercial piece of software, but, they do offer a standard edition that’s free. So far it seems to run pretty good, importantly it seems to do a good job of serving PHP (which always seems to have been on the problem on my server anyway – I had some PHP apps for stats tracking and webmail).
After a while I’d have `defunct` php processes kicking around, and fairly soon after my Rails processes would go crazy. Then I was in a world of pain, which most certainly did not rock!
I’ll keep an eye on things. So far it seems pretty stable, and was very easy to setup (following their own guide). I just need to get a few more things configured and I’m all ported.
I’d definitely be tempted to switch back to Lighty, but I think I’ll have to wait until 1.5.0 and `mod_proxy_core`. Also, have any people on the lazyweb had problems with Mongrel 0.13? I tried Lighty -> Pound -> Mongrel and that also seemed to die as often as Lighty -> Mongrel?