My VPS
I have a VPS for development/staging as well as small apps through PowerVPS. I have their minimal VPS plan for $24.95/mo that only comes with CentOS 4.4 and Webmin. It’s cheaper than anything else out there and offers more bandwidth. I also had rather pleasant experience with PowerVPS with my other VPS.
So, what did I do this weekend? I decided to completely reconfigure and install everything from the source code, making it distro-independent.
Here’s the spec:
1. Apache 2.2.4
2. Ruby 1.8.6
3. Rails 1.2.3
4. Latest gems
The way it is configured, it uses Apache’s mod_proxy_balancer and a mongrel cluster. I still can’t figure out Capistrano, and therefore I install Rails apps manually, but I’m getting help from my tutor today to resolve this issue. It’s hard when you’re as dumb as I am.
It took me a day to do this and I learned what’s really happening behind the scene. If you’d like to do this and want me to help, please contact me at joon at rubyhead dot com.
