Hi Adrian. Many thanks for your reply. This helps to answer my question and it is pretty much as I expected. Do you have any additional infomation on the sort of volume ChicagoCrime and others are handling and how they are generally coping.
Regards, David Adrian Holovaty wrote: > On 2/27/06, David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>What does scalability look like for Django once you get to the limit of >>your initial serving capacity. I would be interested in what is occuring >>with some of these large newspaper sites to handle the load. > > > Hi David, > > The general way of scaling a Django app is through caching and > hardware. For caching, we highly recommend memcached, which is capable > of spreading cache over several machines without having to duplicate > cache per machine. For hardware, you can load-balance your > Web-application servers. You can probably also do some sort of > database replication, but I haven't had to deal with that in my > experience. > > Adrian > > -- > Adrian Holovaty > holovaty.com | djangoproject.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
