Phusion Passenger VS Unicorn

Compare Phusion Passenger vs Unicorn and see what are their differences.

Phusion Passenger

A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js (by phusion)

Unicorn

Unofficial Unicorn Mirror. (by defunkt)
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Phusion Passenger Unicorn
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C++ Ruby
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Phusion Passenger

Posts with mentions or reviews of Phusion Passenger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.
  • Part 3 — Adding Git, Passenger and Nginx
    4 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2022
    While there is a debate on which ones are the best, we will be using Passenger and Nginx, since they are both fast and reliable. You may wish to do your own research and see which one works for you.
  • How To Deploy a Rails App With Passenger and Nginx On Digital Ocean Part 1 — Creating SSH
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2022
    In this tutorial we will be deploying a Rails app with Passenger, as the application server, and Nginx, as the web server. Also, the Rails app will use Postgres, so we will be installing that as well.
  • I'm having trouble understanding what Rack does. Could you explain-like-I-am-a-beginner? with real examples if possible please.
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 16 May 2022
    Here's Puma's implementation, and Here's Passenger's implementation.
  • Rails 7 new production install: from zero to deploy (Ubuntu 20.04 edition)
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2022
    server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name YOUR_DOMAIN.ORG; # If you deploy without DNS and SSL, you could leave servername blank like below # server_name _; root /home/deploy/APPNAME/current/public; passenger_enabled on; passenger_app_env production; passenger_env_var RUBYOPT '-r bundler/setup'; # Cf issue: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2409 # Uncomment if you use ActionCable and/or Turbo Streams # location /cable { # passenger_app_group_name APPNAME_websocket; # passenger_force_max_concurrent_requests_per_process 0; # } # Allow uploads up to 100MB in size client_max_body_size 100m; location ~ ^/assets { expires max; gzip_static on; } }
  • Passenger 介紹
    4 projects | dev.to | 25 Oct 2021
    > passenger start =============== Phusion Passenger Standalone web server started =============== PID file: /home/leon/Git/MasoniteDemo1/passenger.3000.pid Log file: /home/leon/Git/MasoniteDemo1/passenger.3000.log Environment: development Accessible via: http://0.0.0.0:3000/ You can stop Phusion Passenger Standalone by pressing Ctrl-C. Problems? Check https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/admin/standalone/troubleshooting/ ===============================================================================
  • 5 Basic Things you need to know about managing a Linux server
    2 projects | dev.to | 29 Jun 2021
    PHP is great, but not for all of us. What about running Node.js or Python apps? You might be tempted to use proxy_pass but it won't handle the app startup and crashes for us. Luckily we have a better option: Phusion Passenger.

Unicorn

Posts with mentions or reviews of Unicorn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Phusion Passenger and Unicorn you can also consider the following projects:

PM2 - Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.

Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism

Thin - A very fast & simple Ruby web server

Nodemon.io - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development

forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)

Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.

TorqueBox - TorqueBox Ruby Platform

supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)

supervisor

Iodine - iodine - HTTP / WebSockets Server for Ruby with Pub/Sub support