Securing your sleep when running Mongrel
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Mongrel, which, along with Apache 2.2 & load balancer & mongrel cluster, I run for hosting my Rails site - is a very nice piece of software. But there is a problem. It crashes.
I found about it the hard way - by a phone call at 0:30 in the morning, saying "the server seems to be down". "Doh", I though - and got out of my comfy bad.. Got to my computer, logged in to the server, restarted Mongrel cluster and got back to sleep (you can always check the logs later in the morning, right? :) (more…)
