Monkeytreats

Having grown annoyed with the continual evaluation of blog software, I decided to instead play around with yet another web server for a change of pace. Which is sort of like asking to be kicked in the head because you’re tired of getting kicked in the ass, but no matter.

LiteSpeed is interesting. For me, it wasn’t by any means as easy to install as it’s been made out to be. Also, the UI for the web admin interface has some really serious flaws.

All that said, though, once I finished monkeying with permissions and doing about my eighth fresh install, it’s running and it seems pretty decent. I like the idea of not running an arbitrary number of fixed Mongrel processes per Rails application, or having to maintain a separate application server daemon at all. I also like having a web interface for the admin, even if it’s flawed. I’ve missed having that functionality since I stopped working with Roxen and Caudium back in the day.

At this point, if I try nginx, Pound and Radiant, I’ll have done pretty much the Grand Tour of Rails platforms, both server and CMS.