Racker Hacker Words of wisdom from a server administrator

After working with some RHEL 5 servers fairly regularly, I noticed a reduction in Apache 2.2 performance when many connections were made to the server. There were messages like these streaming into the access_log as well:
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Aug/2008:12:00:10 -0400] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 2269 “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) (internal dummy connection)”
127.0.0.1 - - [...]

If you have Plesk 8.1 or later, you have support available for Ruby on Rails. Unfortunately, clicking the FastCGI checkbox in Plesk won’t get you all of the support you need (and expect). The folks over at Parallels created a relatively simple process to get Ruby on Rails working properly on your site:
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