Phusion Passenger

What do you like best?

The module has included an option for most of the webservers I have used to date, and the ease of installing, configuring, and getting started is something I liked about it. Digging into further details the performance of web servers combined with Phusion passenger has been brilliant.

Most of the cloud-based SAAS tools I manage are built with scripting languages, and the web servers are Nginx or Apache. I usually go with Phusion Passenger and have been using this module for over a decade.

The technologies are getting updated and I did not face any issues with the Phusion passenger. It is a well-maintained module. Never has issues with security, reliability, and scalability.

What do you dislike?

Haven't used this with the latest app servers, and sometimes the errors are encountered during installation and configuration with app environments.

In some instances where I would wish to include this module in both Nginx & Apache, there were some issues on the server-side. In case of changing the web server, there isn't a way to uninstall the passenger module.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you are building an application using technologies like Ruby on Rails etc, Phusion Passenger would be the best app server to have with the best support for both Apache & Nginx Servers.

Installation, configuration, and maintaining this with your web servers would be very easy, I have used this on most Linux servers based on Ubuntu, CentOS and it works like a charm.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Problems solved:

Getting my webservers to work with various app environments with Phusion Passenger

For most of the applications I have hosted on cloud servers no matter front end and backend, I could easily configure Phusion passenger with Nginx and Apache to serve

Benefits:

Ease of managing the environment

Scaling the server was easy with Phusion Passenger in place

Log tracing on the webserver was detailed for a developer who uses this.