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.
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...
One of the things I've been very bad at previously is thanking people when I use their code snippets/advise/solutions.
You might know the scenario:
Now, step number 4 should actually be to report back somehow about the solution you found that worked, both to thank the person who gave you the solution and to help others who have the same problem after you.
I don't do this often enough, and since I am now the proud owner of a technical blog, my second resolution on the blog (the first being to post!) is to thank others for their efforts, when I find them useful.
Therefore, to this end I have to mentioned the following post on the mephisto wiki, about Getting Mint to Play Nice.
A few years ago, a friend told me about Mint, by Shaun Inman, and ever since I've used this for statistics on my websites, both clients and personal.
This blog is now minted, thanks to the people above! Resolution #2 is off and running in style!