The OP asked "What's the 'largest' scale web2py is known to perform well on? "
Massimo evaded the question and no one else has provided an answer. The core of Erlang is very simple. Erland does no On Dec 2, 5:09 am, Branko Vukelic <bg.bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Erlang is for humongous, real-time, distributed, and highly-available apps. > > Here's an example (maybe quoted one time too often): > > http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html > > > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:45 PM, John Heenan <johnmhee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The elephant in the room has not gone away Massimo. > > > Web2py is great for small projects. > > > DotNet is great for small and large projects. > > > The elephant in the room is not only the untested scalibility of > > web2py but also the amount of resources that neeeds to be thrown at > > web2py compared to DotNet and other frameworks as scale increases. > > > One of the glaring defciences in web frameworks that use Python is the > > glaring engineering weakness of using thread per request web serving > > instead of using event per request web serving. I think I have pointed > > this out a number of times on this fourm, but it just does not sink > > in. I even pointed out how Linux loast a PR war over this issue. > > > There is no need for Python based web frameworks to use thread per > > request web serving. > > > John Heenan > > > On Nov 30, 4:05 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > >> You achieve scalability by replicating the web server behind a load > >> balancer. This is documented in the book, chapter 11, using HAProxy. > >> All frameworks work the same way in this respect. web2py has no > >> intrinsic limitations. The bottle neck is the database connection. All > >> frameworks have the same problem. You can replicate the database too > >> and web2py supports multiple database clients with Round-Robin. > > >> On a small VPS, web2py in average, should execute one page in 20ms. > >> Depending on how many requests/second you need you can determine how > >> many servers you need. > > >> web2py apps run on Google App Engine and that means arbitrary > >> scalability as long as you can live with the constraints imposed by > >> the Google datastore (these limitations will go away as soon as Google > >> releases MySQL in the cloud, which they announced some time ago). > > >> Please ask the consultant: which .NET feature makes it scale any > >> better than web2py or Rails? If he explains we can address it more > >> specifically. > > >> Massimo > > >> On Nov 29, 11:56 am, Lorin Rivers <lriv...@mosasaur.com> wrote: > > >> > The project I'm working on has hired a consultant who is now > >> > recommending .Net in place of web2py or even rails. > > >> > What's the 'largest' scale web2py is known to perform well on? > > >> > -- > >> > Lorin Rivers > >> > Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> > >> > <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> > >> > 512/203.3198 (m) > > -- > Branko Vukelić > > bg.bra...@gmail.com > stu...@brankovukelic.com > > Check out my blog:http://www.brankovukelic.com/ > Check out my portfolio:http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ > Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) > I hang out on identi.ca:http://identi.ca/foxbunny > > Gimp Brushmakers Guildhttp://bit.ly/gbg-group
