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A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js

25 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 6 stories, 19 comments · first 2010-06-08 · latest 2026-06-09

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  1. …update (security update included), this security update caused 4 hours of downtime to my SaaS : https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2662
    comment by soulchild37 · 2026-06-09 · in Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 Nginx Security Update Breaks Many Dynamic Modules
  2. Another alternative is to migrate to Modern C++. I just did a quick look through the code base. https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/stable-5.3/src/cxx... Has some issues. There are pointers everywhere, even a void* * It does not use…
    comment by RcouF1uZ4gsC · 2018-09-19 · in Migrating Passenger from C++ to Go?
  3. Passenger and Unicorn (from Passenger): https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Unicorn-vs-Phusion... Passenger and Puma (from Passenger): https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Puma-vs-Phusion-Pa...
    comment by wasd · 2015-03-04 · in Phusion Passenger 5.0.1 “Raptor” Released
  4. …commit even adds a ~250 LoC file (ext/common/ServerKit/CookieUtils.h) to do cookie parsing: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/a760649cd79fde43... --- Anyway, what you're getting at is that Phusion only parses a certain value from…
    comment by WimLeers · 2015-01-06 · in Researching a new form of HTTP caching optimization
  5. Phusion Passenger author here. See https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/1286 for details. In short: Phusion Passenger sometimes spawns application processes (e.g. during startup). This spawning happens through bash. Some environment…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2014-09-25 · in Security Advisory: Phusion Passenger and the CVE-2014-6271 Bash Vulnerability
  6. …to get than support for OpenBSD. Also, this is why anybody would want to use Passenger over Puma: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Puma-vs-Phusion-Pa... (or vice versa, for that matter) TLDR: Passenger takes a more holistic and…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2014-02-07 · in Install Ruby 2.1, Rails and Passenger on Ubuntu
  7. …should be the first link in your announcement imho. PS Love passenger for RoR! EDIT: found it here: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js
    comment by danmaz74 · 2013-10-23 · in Phusion Passenger's Node.js support has been open sourced
  8. …are also a bunch of features that you get compared to straight reverse proxying with Nginx. From https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js (that document is slightly outdated because of recently developments, we're updating it): *…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2013-10-23 · in Phusion Passenger's Node.js support has been open sourced
  9. …in 4.0.16. Previously it was only available in the Enterprise variant. You can learn more at https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2013-09-11 · in Debian and Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger
  10. …Passenger can increase performance by load balancing requests between multiple nodes. Please see https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Node.js for reasons to use Phusion Passenger with Node. The cluster module is great, but it requires…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2013-09-03 · in Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby
  11. …written a comprehensive comparison between Puma and Phusion Passenger, which you can read here: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Puma-vs-Phusion-Pa... The comparison covers things like concurrency models, I/O models, security,…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2013-08-27 · in Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby
  12. …is really similar: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/enterprise good writeup on the subject here: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Puma-vs-Phusion-Pa...
    comment by allr · 2013-08-27 · in Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby
  13. You mean the URL (github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger) and the fact that the Github page says that the wiki belongs to the "passenger" repository, aren't enough of a disclaimer? The "License and price" section at the beginning is also worded…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2013-07-04 · in Puma vs Phusion Passenger
  14. …method (inspecting smaps) to report Private Dirty RSS for Apache processes and Passenger processes: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/master/bin/pa... The Passenger utility is difficult to extracate from their package though,…
    comment by bradleyland · 2012-11-28 · in Measuring the shared RAM usage of a process
  15. …as detecting bugs in the system and working around them. You can read some of the source code here: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/master/lib/ph... https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/tree/master/lib/ph... As far as I…
    comment by FooBarWidget · 2012-10-24 · in Phusion Passenger 4.0 beta 1 is here
  16. …doesn't merge my mod_dir fix. :( :( I am so sick of having to maintain my own copy of this thing. https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/pull/3
    comment by saurik · 2011-02-24 · in Passenger 3.0.3 released
  17. …make the jump to nginx. It is also a fantastic web server. Hopefully this has helped someone. 1 - https://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/master/bin/pa... 2 - http://serverfault.com/questions/86550/apache-keep-alive-or-...
    comment by bradleyland · 2011-02-05 · in Bring down a poorly deployed WordPress (and how to stop it from happening)
  18. …comes with a great little utility called `passenger-memory-stats`. The source can be viewed here: http://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/master/bin/pas... There are some good ideas in their code that can be used as a jumping off…
    comment by bradleyland · 2010-07-13 · in Performance Tuning The Apache Web Server
  19. …items to reach out and grab. 1 - http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+top+vs+private+dirty+rs... 2 - http://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/master/bin/pas...
    comment by bradleyland · 2010-06-08 · in Reducing the load on a small VPS by 80% in 5 minutes