Now on Mephisto
Hello! Blog was down for almost a week. Sorry for that. Spam comments flooded all over the blog and I have to delete up to 50 comments a day. Suddenly blog stopped working, I am not sure what was the reason, nothing in rails log file, nothing in fast cgi log. It seemed to much work just to get it back on shared server, so I decided to host blog on VPS and to convert it from Typo to Mephisto engine with modified Lighter theme (thanks Brandon).
From the whole story I got few answers I was looking for some time:
Can Rails web site be hosted on shared server? No, even the smallest one or at least without a problems now and / or in the future. You need VPS and you need at least 30-40 MB per web site. If you want Apache, MySql and e-mail, by my experience VPS with 160 MB is minimum. VPS’s come without Cpanel / Plesk (if you are spare with memory and money at least), so you would need to learn some sysadmin as well. Webmin can surely make things easier.
Is it easy to migrate from Typo to Mephisto? Can Mephisto host multiple blogs? Yes and yes, very easy. I had two blogs, one running on Mephisto and one on Typo. I converted Typo blog to Mephisto and imported in same database in just few commands. Adding new theme to converted blog was easy too.
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Bojan,
It looks great! Better than mine.
You might want to watch out for the tag cloud. I ended up having to remove it because it was bringing my server to it’s knees.