Comments on: Load Balancing Mongrel with Pen on Windows 2003 server x64 64bit 64 bit http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/ taming the animal...and linux too. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:30:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: TylerMontgomery http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-136 TylerMontgomery Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:31:13 +0000 http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-136 @kevin The company I was working for was extremely stodgy when it came to buying anything hardware or software related. It was like pulling teeth to get them to buy $300 computers for the business people to use (even though the owner drives a $350,000 Ferrari when the weather's nice oh and his daily driver is a $100,000 Benz). Terrible company. Anyway, I'm now using haproxy to load balance between clusters of mongrels and stunnel in front for ssl and nginx for redirecting port 80 to 443 and to serve images. But now i have the pleasure of not dealing with Windows boxes (CentOS now). @kevin
The company I was working for was extremely stodgy when it came to buying anything hardware or software related. It was like pulling teeth to get them to buy $300 computers for the business people to use (even though the owner drives a $350,000 Ferrari when the weather’s nice oh and his daily driver is a $100,000 Benz). Terrible company.

Anyway, I’m now using haproxy to load balance between clusters of mongrels and stunnel in front for ssl and nginx for redirecting port 80 to 443 and to serve images. But now i have the pleasure of not dealing with Windows boxes (CentOS now).

]]> By: Kevin Mahon http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-135 Kevin Mahon Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:16:28 +0000 http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-135 What are your reasons for choosing apache instead of a "hardware" load balancers even when the HLBs have come down to prices around 2500 with full functionality and support? What are your reasons for choosing apache instead of a “hardware” load balancers even when the HLBs have come down to prices around 2500 with full functionality and support?

]]> By: TylerMontgomery http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-53 TylerMontgomery Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:07:38 +0000 http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-53 @Danny Danny, the "other software company" I mention at the beginning of the post sort of forced the company I contract for to purchase a x64 Windows 2003 server. So its here in the office and it'd be a waste (maybe not) to not use a Xeon chip with 8gb of RAM for my own disposal - the thing is lightning fast but getting a Rails config working on it was a nightmare until mongrel got updated and I got apache setup (see my post about <a href="http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/apache-on-windows-x64-as-load-balancer-for-mongrel/" rel="nofollow">apache on windows 2003</a>) @Danny
Danny, the “other software company” I mention at the beginning of the post sort of forced the company I contract for to purchase a x64 Windows 2003 server. So its here in the office and it’d be a waste (maybe not) to not use a Xeon chip with 8gb of RAM for my own disposal – the thing is lightning fast but getting a Rails config working on it was a nightmare until mongrel got updated and I got apache setup (see my post about apache on windows 2003)

]]> By: Danny http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-52 Danny Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:46:57 +0000 http://awesomerails.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/load-balancing-mongrel-with-pen-on-windows-2003-server-x64-64bit-64-bit/#comment-52 Very interesting! We signed up with Server Intellect because they have their own independently licensed copy of Windows Server 2003, and it can be rebooted independently. It's managed with the Terminal Services/Remote Desktop, has its own System Registry, Applications and System Files. It's a great value. Very interesting! We signed up with Server Intellect because they have their own independently licensed copy of Windows Server 2003, and it can be rebooted independently. It’s managed with the Terminal Services/Remote Desktop, has its own System Registry, Applications and System Files. It’s a great value.

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