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Comments by Carl Mercier

Carl Mercier on #337 Capistrano Recipes (pro) 2012-03-29 19:02:07

I recently released a very simple alternative to Chef if anyone's interested: https://github.com/cmer/shoestrap

Carl Mercier on #337 Capistrano Recipes (pro) 2012-03-29 19:01:07

Here's what you're looking for: https://github.com/cmer/shoestrap-example/blob/master/helpers/default#L162

Carl Mercier on #337 Capistrano Recipes (pro) 2012-03-29 18:58:06

Unicorn is significantly faster than Passenger. A well-tuned MySQL install performs similarly to a well-tuned Postgres install.

Nginx is generally much simpler to setup than Apache. It's also faster and less resource hungry.