[Mongrel] Do I really need a cluster?

[Matthew Langham]

Hi John,

> Am I running any risks with this set up? The one I can think of is
> there is no redundancy: if that single mongrel instance fails, the
> site is down. Has anyone tried monitoring the single instance, and
> restarting it if it fails? Is there anything else I should be
> worrying about?
>

We use Monit to monitor our instances and Monit both restarts and  
reports via email if anything fails. We schedule Monit to check every  
60 seconds so having an instance fail is not really noticed.

Matthew Langham

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