Do I really need to setup a mongrel cluster to handle this?

Question

So my father runs a rather small business. I'm going to set him up with a website using RefineryCMS (that's a ror-based cms).. He will probably get less than 500 hits a month. Do I really need to set up mongrel cluster for this as about every tutorial on the web suggests?

Does anyone some good reading material for setting up a simple, small scale RoR-production environment? I want to move away from apache and try nginx or lighttpd as the server. What would be YOUR preferred setup for a site that will get between 100 and 500 hits a month?

Thanks !

Answer 1

Simplest answer is Passenger. If you know Apache, use it, otherwise use Nginx. It's a piece of cake to setup, and manages the processes for you. It's pretty much like setting up a PHP site. Here's a link

Answer 2

Even easier to run: unicorn. But probably needs nginx too to handle slow connections (over the internet).

Answer 3

You could host such a setup on heroku.com free stack and not have to worry about setting up your own server.

We even have a tutorial: http://tutorials.refinerycms.org/tutorials/how-to-install-refinery-on-heroku