title: Slow initial server startup when using Phusion Passenger and Rails
body: <p>To jump on the band-wagon of Phusion Passenger we've setup a staging server for a small rails app to test things out.</p>
  
  <p>So far it has been very nice to use, it makes installing/configuring and deploying apps a breeze. The problem is the site we're using doesn't get hit very often and it seems to shut down the servers in the background. Meaning when someone goes to the site they have a really long wait until it starts up a new server to handle the request. We've read through the documentation, tried quite a few different set-ups (smart/smart-lv2 modes, passengeridletime etc) and still haven't found a real solution. </p>
  
  <p>After ploughing through Google results we can't really find useful information. Currently we have a cron job that makes a request every-so-often in an attempt to keep the servers running.</p>
  
  <p>Is anyone else experiencing this problem and do you have any advice for a fix?</p>