I want to make a recommendation to a group of internal customers where I work concerning a Python web framework. They are seeking to build a portal that can handle around 5000 total users but probably no more than 100-200 simultaneous users. This is supposed to serve mainly static content - the content will hold references, tutorials and examples for different technologies, a forum (similar probably to phpbb) and podcasts (rss and mp3 files). Also I believe it will definitely need a decent DB server for this.
They have some other suggestions ranging from Websphere/JSP's to PHP. I personally don't think the PHP will scale well for growth and I also think that using Java/JSPs will be too slow for this sort of thing. I normally work as system and application admin and use Python in a number of ways to get the job done. Naturally, I am naturally inclined to suggest something that uses Python or something "Pythonic". I wanted to suggest Zope but there are also other ones I'm thinking of as well like CherryPy and Karrigell. Which one of these (or other ones you guys know of) would do the best job in this situation? Also do you guys know if MySQL would work with this or should they use something more robust like DB2 (IBM shop)? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
