On Nov 27, 3:26 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote: > Nick Mellor a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > I'm contemplating setting up a Python-powered website for the tourist > > industry, which will involve a web service, a good deal of XML > > processing, and a Django-powered front-end. If the project works, it > > could get a lot of traffic. I'm sure it can be done, but I'm looking > > to find out more about how existing high-volume Python sites have > > managed their workload. Can anyone give me examples of high-volume > > Python-powered websites, if possible with some idea of their > > architecture? > > youtube once used quite a lot of Python IIRC. You may be able to find > relevant infos on the net. > > While I may disagree with Kutlu on some points[1], it's clear that the > key to handling huge traffic is the ability to scale up. So better to > avoid solutions that make it hard - or impossible - to setup load > balancing, replication etc. Now that doesn't mean than decent > performance and reasonnable memory usage are not a concern - even a > simple website with moderate traffic can become a PITA if you choose the > wrong tools / architecture (Plone perfs problems anyone ?). > > Anyway : just make sure your solution is both simple enough to avoid > becoming a resource-eater yet serious enough to allow for fine-grained > caching, load-balancing and the like. > > [1] like reinventing your own framework - whatever architecture > (including non-blocking IO/event-based server like Twisted) you settle > on, chances are most of the grunt work has already been done, and > probably better than what you could come with in a reasonable amount of > time - unless you have a really BIG budget of course.
Bruno and Kutlu, It's a small start-up project. By mentioning lawrence and other Django-powered websites, I was pointing out that the problem of creating a high-performance web solution using Python has already been solved in several places, and the lessons learned have been given back to us in the form of products like Django. I tend to agree with Bruno that I'm unlikely to do a better job than Django. Thanks for your responses, Nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
