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-title: Pen/Balance
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-h1. Pen/Balance Best Practice Deployment
-
-Using "Pen":http://siag.nu/pen/ or "Balance":http://www.inlab.de/balance.html to serve
-a cluster of Mongrel servers is a simple way to get good concurrency without
-going wild on your deployment complexity.  What these two programs do is listen on one
-port and then proxy the requests to one of the Mongrel servers in your cluster.
-
-h2. Requirements
-
-First up, you should learn to use "mongrel_cluster":/docs/mongrel_cluster.html to manage
-a cluster of Mongrel servers.  It's a simple GemPlugin that simplifies things and also
-works better with Capistrano.
-
-Second, you need to install wither Pen or Balance.  Either use your package management
-system or install from source.
-
-Finally, you probably can't do this on win32 unless you use Cygwin.
-
-h2. Pen
-
-Once you get Pen installed you just use it like this:
-
-# Make sure that you can run your application like normal and then
-setup "mongrel_cluster":/docs/mongrel_cluster.html so that all of the running Mongrels work.
-# Run this command: pen -H 4000 localhost:3000 localhost:3001
-# Check port 4000 to make sure that Pen is proxying correctly.
-
-As with the Balance instructions below you'll want to create a start-up script so that
-Pen gets started on machine reboots.  The -H adds a "X-Forwarded-For" header to the
-request, which helps if you need to track the client's IP address.  There's plenty
-of other options for pen as well.
-
-NOTE: Pen has experimental support for SSL.  Try it out if you need SSL.
-
-h2. Balance
-
-Balance is pretty simple:
-
-# Make sure that you can run your application like normal and then
-setup "mongrel_cluster":/docs/mongrel_cluster.html so that all of the running Mongrels work.
-# Run this command:  balance 4000 localhost:3001 localhost:3002 ...
-# Hit port 4000 with a browser to see if it's working.
-
-That's all there is to it.  You might want to write a little start-up script that
-starts balance on machine reboots.  Balance has many other options available if
-you need to do more complex stuff, but this is usually all people need.
-
-h2. Limitations
-
-We found that Balance has an upper limit of 15 backend servers.  I haven't heard much
-about Pen, but it's experimental SSL support is interesting.