Re: Performance and scalability

2005-10-05 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: On Oct 3, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Jimmie Houchin wrote: Can you tell us what kind of hardware is supporting that 100k? Our main production platform is three servers: a database server, a web server, and a media server. They're all Dual Xeons with 2G of RAM.

Re: Performance and scalability

2005-10-03 Thread Jimmie Houchin
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Adrian Holovaty wrote: > >> Heh, KUsports.com has used that PHP message board for *years*, and we >> just haven't had the time (or inclination, really) to convert it to >> Django. There's no technical reason why it couldn't use Django --

Re: RDBMS knowledge required?

2005-09-08 Thread Jimmie Houchin
nd RDBMS before testing it out further. Right now I am exploring my options. Django looks good. Very impressive. I have no doubts as to its capabilities. I am not yet sure if it is the best match for me. ie: the best tool to enable me. Primarily I am a Smalltalk guy. (Squeak) Thanks for your hel

RDBMS knowledge required?

2005-09-07 Thread Jimmie Houchin
I am exploring Django and Rails. I am familiar with Python but not so much Ruby. I have no experience with RDBMS outside of starting the Practical SQL book. How much SQL and RDBMS do I have to know, understand, have mastered, to start out with Django, to fully develop a website with Django to ma