On Feb 26, 10:32 am, mdipierro <massimodipierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 100,000 hits a day is not a low. I get that some day on my web server > without problem and without one request dropped. > > Most frameworks web2py, Django, Pylons can handle that kind of load > since Python is not the bottle neck. taking a look at django right now, doesnt look too bad from where im standing, maybe when i get into the code i'd run into some issues that would cause some headaches!!
> You have to follow some tricks: > > 1) have the web server serve static pages directly and set the pragma > cache expire to one month > 2) cache all pages that do not have forms for at least few minutes > 3) avoid database joins but this would probably be to the detriment of my database design, which is a no-no as far as im concerned. The way the tables would be structured requires 'joins' when querying the db; or could you elaborate a little?? > 4) use a server with at least 512KB Ram. hmmm...!, still thinking about what you mean by this statement also. > 5) if you pages are large, use gzip compression > > If you develop your app with the web2py framework, you always have the > option to deploy on the Google App Engine. If you can live with their > constraints you should have no scalability problems. > > Massimo > > On Feb 25, 4:26 am, simn_stv <nany...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > hello people, i have been reading posts on this group for quite some > > time now and many, if not all (actually not all!), seem quite > > interesting. > > i plan to build an application, a network based application that i > > estimate (and seriously hope) would get as many as 100, 000 hits a day > > (hehe,...my dad always told me to 'AIM HIGH' ;0), not some 'facebook' > > or anything like it, its mainly for a financial transactions which > > gets pretty busy... > > so my question is this would anyone have anything that would make > > python a little less of a serious candidate (cos it already is) and > > the options may be to use some other languages (maybe java, C (oh > > God))...i am into a bit of php and building API's in php would not be > > the hard part, what i am concerned about is scalability and > > efficiency, well, as far as the 'core' is concerned. > > > would python be able to manage giving me a solid 'core' and will i be > > able to use python provide any API i would like to implement?... > > > im sorry if my subject was not as clear as probably should be!. > > i guess this should be the best place to ask this sort of thing, hope > > im so right. > > > Thanks thanks for the feedback... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
