Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> commented:

> This has a lot to do with the latency and speed of the connecting
> network. Sites like Ebay, Google, and Amazon are connected
> to internet backbone nodes (for speed) and are cached throughout
> the network using things like Akami (to reduce latency)...


I agree, the problem is not always the software.  :-)  I think Akami reduces 
the network latency experienced; also, one may have multiple servers and load 
balance the traffic, and local NetCaches can speed traffic by reducing the load 
on the server (the most requested data is cached upstream from the server).  

I understand that web queries are very clustered (though I've not seen data to 
confirm this): we may all be making individual queries (googling about 
decorators?), but the queries are not as different as we might imagine.  
Hardware caching helps with that.

A good "enterprise" web site will have infrastructure on it's side beyond what 
an economical-minded non-commercial site is likely to invest in.

Transactional (secure) processing is a different animal, I think (but I would 
also think it is a very small percent of the overall web traffic).


No worries, Apache may run faster when it's written in PyPy.  :-)  I guess that 
statement shows I am a bit biased in thought process.






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