# Phusion Passenger Reviews **Vendor:** Phusion B.V. **Category:** [Application Server Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-server) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Phusion Passenger A web server and application server for your web apps. Keeps your users happy, saves your business time and money. ## Phusion Passenger Reviews ### 1. Phusion Passenger - Best module I have been using for over a decade **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashwin K. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** The module has included an option for most of the webservers I have used to date, and the ease of installing, configuring, and getting started is something I liked about it. Digging into further details the performance of web servers combined with Phusion passenger has been brilliant. Most of the cloud-based SAAS tools I manage are built with scripting languages, and the web servers are Nginx or Apache. I usually go with Phusion Passenger and have been using this module for over a decade. The technologies are getting updated and I did not face any issues with the Phusion passenger. It is a well-maintained module. Never has issues with security, reliability, and scalability. **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** Haven't used this with the latest app servers, and sometimes the errors are encountered during installation and configuration with app environments. In some instances where I would wish to include this module in both Nginx & Apache, there were some issues on the server-side. In case of changing the web server, there isn't a way to uninstall the passenger module. **Recommendations to others considering Phusion Passenger:** If you are building an application using technologies like Ruby on Rails etc, Phusion Passenger would be the best app server to have with the best support for both Apache & Nginx Servers. Installation, configuration, and maintaining this with your web servers would be very easy, I have used this on most Linux servers based on Ubuntu, CentOS and it works like a charm. **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems solved: Getting my webservers to work with various app environments with Phusion Passenger For most of the applications I have hosted on cloud servers no matter front end and backend, I could easily configure Phusion passenger with Nginx and Apache to serve Benefits: Ease of managing the environment Scaling the server was easy with Phusion Passenger in place Log tracing on the webserver was detailed for a developer who uses this. ### 2. Easy setup and great community **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kumar P. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** Eventually, you do plan to have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right? God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates Dinosaurs. You really think you can fly that thing? Hey, you know how I'm, like, always trying to save the planet? Here's my chance. **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** God help us, we're in the hands of engineers. Must go faster. Jaguar shark! So tell me - does it really exist? Hey, you know how I'm, like, always trying to save the planet? Here's my chance. God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates Dinosaurs. **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Eventually, you do plan to have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right? God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates Dinosaurs. You really think you can fly that thing? Hey, you know how I'm, like, always trying to save the planet? Here's my chance. ### 3. Phusion Passenger with Rails **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ram L. | Module Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** * Fast robust, secure and lightweight server. * Best suited for Rails applications. * Easy to maintain and manage with Nginx. For me it's best that it has Nginx integrations. * No extra settings and maintenance required specially for Phusion Passenger. * It's free to use with Nginx, only extended feature requires pro / paid versions. * It's highly scalable * It is based on Out-of-process architecture that is really great for Rails applications. * It's also having integrations with apache. * It is having Asynchronous I/O, it helps to increase speed. * Very low bandwidth required for Phusion Passenger **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** Some extended feature required pro / paid version of Phusion Passenger like: Multithreading **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** In early days we were using Unicorn for our Rails applications, We found memory leaks and other issues with it, Then shifted to puma, Puma is a good server but still was facing a lot of issues like, High memory and have to manage service separately for puma. As Traffic goes higher, finally we shifted to Phusion Passenger, It's save our life, now we have lesser memory and high throughput. We don't have to manage separate service for Phusion Passenger. ### 4. You will find everything documented **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajay B. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** Track of all things in the form of document. **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** To put all the details together sometimes it's difficult to find the exact thing which you are looking at. **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting and deployment services ### 5. Perfect application server with ROR, NGNIX ,AWS EC2 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit P. | Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** It's perfect for your application server and I am using it in maximum of my application in Ruby on Rails a,Ngnix, AWS ec2. It has a vast community for support where you can achieve anything you want. **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** However it's perfect app server which is one of the top. More promotion required to beat Puma **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it as a application server ### 6. Deploying nginx with phusion passenger for my Rails Application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** Easier deployment of Rails application in production server using Nginx Phusion Passenger, and the server side fast performance. **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** Support for integration with microservices for distributed systems **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Was able to deploy production server Rails application. Easy Deployment and Fast Performance. ### 7. Ease of use, makes deployment easier in production **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** Easy to switch with multi-process and multi-threading with phusion enterprise version. I was having a problem with one of the requirements and the CTO responded **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** I wish multi threading was also made open source in order to make resource utilisation to the fullest **Recommendations to others considering Phusion Passenger:** Very easy to use. Very good customer support Direct replies from CTO in case of tech assistance **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resource utilisation to the fullest with multi threading environment. Easy to migrate your ruby apps in production. Lots of extensibility to reload passenger process when there are memory bloats Easy to scale your production ### 8. Many years without any issues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajnish K. | Senior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** no hassle integration with ruby on rails project **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** slow when a lot of requests came at the same time **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it with Nginx and for Ruby. using it as an application server. overall it's good, not many issues. ### 9. One of the most trustable server under Ruby, Python and Node.js technologies **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** I used with Rails. Most importantly I like - I can use index.html with cache and very fast loaded in browser **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** Personally, I like a lost and I'm using daily basis , so nothing is dislike **Recommendations to others considering Phusion Passenger:** Should have knowledge of Linux / Mac and Ruby background **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** It reduce page loading time, serve home page very fast. Main problem we are solving is to serve home page very quickly to the user ### 10. Its very useful tool to scale website developed by rails **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** The configuration is simple and scalable **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** The logs of phusion passenger is not so categorised. It cause some difficulty to understand the reason for the error. **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implemented with website to support and handle multi user. Its very useful for handling multi user ### 11. Simpler is hard **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivo J. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** Phusion makes it trivial to run Ruby or python apps on top of Apache or Nginx. Setup is very simple, has a simple to follow wizard and you should be able to be up and running in no time **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** Some default configurations are weird, like default concurrency, caching, gzip and etags. I mean, they work but it is highly like you wanna fiddle with them which, to me, means they have poor default values. Still, docs make it easy to configure. **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making rails apps scale easier. ### 12. Phusion is a great product that makes it easy to run applications at scale **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clay D. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Phusion Passenger?** I like that it is an open source product with an enterprise edition available that provides awesome features. **What do you dislike about Phusion Passenger?** I honestly can't find anything that I dislike about this product. **What problems is Phusion Passenger solving and how is that benefiting you?** The enterprise edition is amazing for rolling restarts of ruby servers! It helps us make sure we have stuff running without issues. ## Phusion Passenger Discussions - [What is Phusion Passenger used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-phusion-passenger-used-for) - [View Phusion Passenger pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/phusion-passenger/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+13%3A11%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b5ede91a-eb06-4e7a-b2df-45c6a49d799c&secure%5Btoken%5D=ea1814e25dc97043321982d736ace217f25a094d27c03b0ed9d6e6bfc1c14b15&format=llm_user) ## Phusion Passenger Features **Data Management** - Data Redundancy - Server Management - Version and Profile Support - Web-based frameworks - Data exchange **User Features** - Centralized offering - Security updates - Real-time visibility **Modernization** - Cloud deployment - Microservices development - On-premises support - Modular architecture **AI Performance Improvement - Application Server** - AI Application Scaling - AI Error Prediction - Intelligent Resource Forecasting - AI Anomaly Detection - AI Intrusion Detection **Agentic AI - Application Server** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Phusion Passenger Alternatives - [Plesk](https://www.g2.com/products/plesk/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (247 reviews) - [Apache HTTP Server Project](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-http-server-project/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (137 reviews) - [IBM WebSphere](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-websphere/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (141 reviews)