<div dir="ltr"> Frankly it sounds more like laziness or being averse to change. All I can relay is experience with our setup here which is purely FreeBSD with an internal Poudriere based package build server, and system/config management with Salt. Taken as a whole it's a painless and relatively trivial process to keep nginx+modules fully up to date and pushed to all the servers. In your case the key part is the management layer. Salt, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, whatever, those things do the true heavy lifting once your server count rises to greater than two and completely levels the field for ease of updates between nginx and Apache.<div> I will say the Passenger module seems to be one of those which goes through fits of updates which if I had to use it would be mildly irksome for non-technical reasons. But with a proper method of package deployment it remains an easy job. Even if nginx were slightly harder to keep updated, which again it's not, I'd still go through the trouble simply for the performance circles it runs around Apache.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(25,25,25)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"><b style="color:rgb(25,25,25)"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="1"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-weight:bold">__________________</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"><div style="margin:0px"><font color="#191919"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font color="#191919"><b>Scott Larson</b></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><font color="#007EFD"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:0px"><font color="#191919"><b><div style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(120,120,120)"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)"><b><div style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(120,120,120)">Systems Administrator</div></b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal;min-height:8px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal"><b>Wiredrive/LA</b></div><div style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal"><a value="+13108238238" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">310 823 8238 ext. 1106</a></div><div style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal"><a value="+13109432078" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">310 943 2078</a> fax</div></b></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font color="#2498FC"><a href="http://www.wiredrive.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.wiredrive.com</a></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font color="#2498FC"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(120,120,120)"><div style="margin:0px"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/wiredrive" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font color="#2498FC">www.twitter.com/wiredrive</font></a></div><div style="margin:0px"><font color="#2498FC"><a href="http://www.wiredrive.com/facebook" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/wiredrive</a></font></div></div></span></font></div></span></font></div></div></div></font></b></div></b></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Dewangga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dewanggaba@xtremenitro.org" target="_blank">dewanggaba@xtremenitro.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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Are you using system and/or config management to manage your third<br>
party software? IMHO, nginx and apache is same, the different is only<br>
on configuration and performance.<br>
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Pkgs, pacthes, updates, etc depend on each linux distribution. IMHO.<br>
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On 9/30/2014 23:41, drfence wrote:<br>
> I work for a big news organization in the South East.. The support<br>
> team is arguing that it's more difficult to support Nginx +<br>
> Passenger because any patches, etc are made by updating source (<br>
> compiling modules statically ) and re-installing. This is as<br>
> opposed to Apache that can be updated using yum with pre-built<br>
> binaries.<br>
><br>
> Curious what people on this mailing list say about the support<br>
> team argument.<br>
><br>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:<br>
> <a href="http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,253635,253635#msg-253635" target="_blank">http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,253635,253635#msg-253635</a><br>
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