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Re:Passenger (mod_rails) released by rbanffy on Saturday April 12, 2008 @10:31AM (#161842)
What would be the main advantages switchpipe has over the conventional mod_rewrite solution under Apache?
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Re:Passenger (mod_rails) released by petercooper on Saturday April 12, 2008 @03:04PM (#161982)
I assume you mean over using mod_rewrite to do proxying direct to backend app servers?

If so: - SwitchPipe controls backend app server processes. If an app isn't being used, it doesn't need to be running. - If an app is under heavy demand, I want more instances (up to a limit) to be launched to deal with it. - SwitchPipe deals with all of the port numbers. No port numbers to deal with as a user.

Just some minor points, but with big usability gains.

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