Re: Shared web host good citizenship question

2010-02-22 Thread Gnarlodious
I would say like this: If your processes are serving up straight pages, let them timeout after a while. If your processes are handling eCommerce or persistent data, keep the connection open as long as possible. -- Gnarlie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Shared web host good citizenship question

2010-02-20 Thread Carl Banks
Not specifically Python related but thought I'd ask. If you have a low-bandwidth website running on a shared web hosting service as a WSGI server (or FastCGI, or any other interface with its own process), is it considered a responsible thing for the process to exit on its own after a period of non