Rails production server (thin): pages occasionally load slower

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I'm running my Rails application through thin on Windows OS.

thin start -e production

Since the number of users grew, now around 10 people using the app simultaneously, there are times when a same page takes a while longer to load.

Are there other configurations that I need to set when running the server on production?

I'm quite sure that it has to do with the server since the slow down happens on pages that normally loads fast.

You'll need to quantify this a little - For example: how often, how much slower? It is slower because of database queries, time to render the page, waiting for thin to be ready for the next request, something else? — Frederick Cheung, Jul 20 '16 at 11:07

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '16 at 07:17

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The Thin webserver is not meant to production environment. Instead of this you should use a different webserver and application server like Nginx/Unicorn, Nginx/Passenger.

answered Jul 20 '16 at 07:17

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I found out that both web servers don't work on Windows OS. – Pod Mays Jul 20 '16 at 11:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '16 at 07:19

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I would recommend Passenger to run your rails app as fast as possible in production mode.

The thin webserver is very fast for few requests, but if there are simultaneously requests, thin gets very slow.

answered Jul 20 '16 at 07:19

siegy22

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score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '16 at 05:58

The following document describes about how to deploy rails application in windows. I haven't done this personally but, believe the latest versions should allow that. Please check the below link to see how it can be done

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/5/11/deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/

Rails production server (thin): pages occasionally load slower

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