Can anybody provide a brief explanation of the differences between mongrel and mongrel cluster?
Can anybody provide a brief explanation of the differences between mongrel and mongrel cluster?
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Can anybody provide a brief explanation of the differences between mongrel and mongrel cluster?
Mongrel is a web server that can handle one request at a time. In order to handle multiple requests, you want to run multiple mongrels. A proxy server (i.e. apache) will sit in front of the servers and listen on port 80 and then relay the web requests to an available mongrel. Mongrel cluster is a gem that manages the launching of the mongrels, stopping, restarting and running it in the right environment with the right user. It abstracts the individual mongrels as workers so you don’t need to worry about them (until things go wrong). All of that is managed by a configuration file usually located with the application.
Tass and Larry K are correct though. If you are looking at a new setup, think about passenger or unicorn. Both are great, unicorn is a bit more complicated and I would not recommend it to a beginner.