What are the advantages of using Passenger over a Mongrel Cluster?
This is probably the silliest question today but... The Rails team & many others recommend using passenger instead of a mongrel cluster, but I cannot find a clear list of exact benefits / advantages of this or what the potential pitfall are. Just wondering if anyone can help explain this? Also is passenger its own server or does it use mongrel under the hood? Thanks! Before Passenger, Mongrel was the way to go, but a Mongrel cluster can be a nuisance to keep properly tuned. As your application grows in complexity, the memory footprint of each Mongrel instance will expand, and this can eat into