My only issues with my server move and my upgrade to Mephisto 0.8, so far was that my Mint installation had stopped recording stats!
Luckily, a little Google searching and browsing round the Google Group in particular I happened upon this message which related to exactly the issue I had.
A few minutes later, and an Apache conf file update later (with a Passenger bounce) and I am now recording stats again.
In an update to my previous post, I've decided to move to a VPS package with my host RailsPlayground.
Scout has been fantastic at pointing out, the obvious, in that a FastCGI instance is not holding up my site that gets around 200,000 page views a month (80% from spiders and the like...), and that I need to move to a new configuration.
RailsPlayground have a sale on currently on their VPS, which gives me 512Mb RAM, 20Gb disk space and 200Gb monthly bandwidth for only $25 a month, so I'm going to go for this, for many reasons.
Rails deployment and server setup has been something I've hidden away from for too long, and it's about time I got my hands dirty and knew what I was talking about, instead of just talking a lot...
Does anybody have suggestions for operating system or deployment configurations?
I recently found Scout on a blog post (somewhere I can't find again to link to!), and thought I'd try it out on my Scottish Football Archive website.
To my surprise, it was easy to install on my shared hosting, easy to setup and great to use.
Monitoring my Rails applications has always been something I am interested in learning more about, and how to use the statistics generated to make my application more efficient, as this is the step which always confuses me - I have a lot of data about performance, requests, timings, but what do I do with them?!?
Scout doesn't help me do this (although it does have pretty graphs!) but it does focus me on learning more about this subject.
I'm currently hosting my apps at Rails Playground for $5 a month, and although this is fantastic in terms of price (and most definitely service!), only a few days on Scout has shown me that my application is suffering due to being on a small hosting package, so it's time for an upgrade...