Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 final release

Check out this new Phusion Passenger 4.x series. It has much, MUCH improved performance, stability and features that rivals that of Unicorn, Puma, etc. It's used by the likes of New York Times, Symantec, AirBnB, etc.<p>The main reason why people use Phusion Passenger is because of its ease of use. The way it integrates into Apache and Nginx is unlike other app servers and saves a lot of administration time and effort.

How can we improve Phusion Passenger? We're very open to feedback from HN readers. If you have any suggestions, please let us know. If you have any questions about it please feel free to ask.

If the phusion passenger people built a plugin for cpanel that gave easy installation and configuration of ruby/pythons app, I really think it could disrupt the php monopoly on cheap hosting for mid level web devs.<p>Deployment would be vastly eased to the same php strategy of "just ftp the files to the server and visit the website".

I really like the general out-of-bound work feature, however I have a hard time imagining a use-case that is not garbage-collection, and that wouldn't be better solved by having a background worker process. Can anyone suggest some situations?