Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
A number of people have made this same assertion, and I'm a bit curious about it. Is there a reason that using Apache/mod_python as the app server and nginx/perlbal as a distributor is somehow less effective than a pure-Python solution?
I'm interested in this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it's less bits of software - if we could tell people "Install Django, install Reinhardt[1], run a couple of instances of Reinhardt on high ports and point nginx / perlbal / your load-balancer of choice at it" we'd have a really nice story for deployment; the Rails guys have this right now with Mongrel. Talking people through configuring mod_python is one more step where they can get stuck. Secondly, a reliable stand-alone Python web server would be a fantastic thing to have for low traffic applications and intranets. Loads of web development takes place behind the firewall after all - Guido has stated that Mondrian runs on a pure Python web server (the wsgiutils one) and handles a couple of thousand users just fine. The bigger vision is this: it's clear to me that application servers configured behind a fast reverse proxy is the Right Way to build websites. Imagine if you could trivially set up something like this: example.com/blog/ -> proxies to WordPress, running on PHP somewhere example.com/drag-n-drop-shopping-cart/ -> proxies to a Rails app example.com/sudoku/ -> proxies to a Django app example.com/catwalk/ -> proxies to a TurboGears app Etc. Sure, you can do this today with some careful setup, but having a good pure-Python web server that you can just start and then leave alone would make deploying micro-apps a heck of a lot easier. Check this out: http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000099.html . Matt Biddulph wrote a tiny-app in Camping (a Rails micro-framework), set it running under Mongrel, pointed a reverse proxy at it and released it to the world. If he builds something else it can have its own Mongrel. That's the ease of configuration and setup I'm interested in. Cheers, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
