On May 16, 11:04 pm, Victor Kryukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid > stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools > that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years > behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The > main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not > the bugs in our tools. > > Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic, > scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is > a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was > used there. > > TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features > - probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't > satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even > reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want > something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py - > unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement > either, or so it seems. > > So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in > python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python + > Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very > well'.
AFAIK mod_python is solid and works well, but YMMV of course. If you want rock solid stability, you want a framework where there is little development going on. In that case, I have a perfect match for your requirements: Quixote. It has been around for ages, it is the most bug free framework I have seen and it *very* scalable. For instance http://www.douban.com is a Quixote-powered chinese site with more than 2 millions of pages served per day. To quote from a message on the Quixote mailing list: """ Just to report-in the progress we're making with a real-world Quixote installation: yesterday douban.com celebrated its first 2 million- pageview day. Quixote generated 2,058,207 page views. In addition, there're about 640,000 search-engine requests. These put the combined requests at around 2.7 millions. All of our content pages are dynamic, including the help and about-us pages. We're still wondering if we're the busiest one of all the python/ruby supported websites in the world. Quixote runs on one dual-core home-made server (costed us US$1500). We have three additional servers dedicated to lighttpd and mysql. We use memcached extensively as well. Douban.com is the most visible python establishment on the Chinese web, so there's been quite a few django vs. quixote threads in the Chinese language python user mailing lists. """ Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
