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Comment by nwienert | Hacker News Reader

You've done a great job posting Passenger links all over this thread.

I find it in poor taste come into a semi-related post and repeatedly spam links to your product over and over...

My first thought upon reading the article was: "I wonder how this compares to Passenger?". I find it very helpful to get an authoritative link from the Passenger guys themselves in this thread.

Since Passenger is by now pretty much the default way to run a Ruby stack I don't think any one here doesn't know who they are and so they really do not need to spam. They are just contributing to the discussion and I appreciate that.

One linking post is fine. Three comments full of Passenger links is pushing good taste.

Is Passenger really the default for most people? I tried it once and honestly prefer just dropping thin or unicorn behind nginx. And with this discussion, I'll probably be trying out puma in the near future.

And you definitely should try Unicorn and Puma. We never said that Unicorn and Puma are bad technologies. In fact, we think they're good technologies. That said, we also think that there are many reasons why one would prefer Phusion Passenger (either open source or Enterprise) over Unicorn or Puma.

One thing that some people don't know about Phusion Passenger is that it is versatile. Phusion Passenger Standalone is a mode, specifically designed to be dropped behind Nginx, just like Thin/Unicorn/Puma. That is a good alternative if you don't like the Apache/Nginx integrated modes.

mwienert, my apologies if it came over as spamming. The reason why I put an introduction in those posts is because last time I posted comments about Phusion Passenger people told me that I should introduce myself as being an author of Phusion Passenger. And as you've noticed in this thread (and not just on HN, see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18398626/why-did-gitlab-6...), I actually say some very favorable things about Puma, and I thought that people will appreciate it if they know that it came from someone who writes web servers instead of just some random commenter.

But I see your point, and I'll keep it in mind. If I can edit my other posts I would remove some links but unfortunate HN has already frozen them.

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