High performance Python web-app

[François Lepoutrre]

Hi,

We have the same problem here (:

Running a "persistent-python" http application
on a win32 platform, fast....

Python is a brilliant tool when it comes to
build http production routines. On linux!

There are clearly working and speedy platforms
to run heavy-duty python-based http: *nix.
It looks like mod_python is the current
"lean thing" to accelerate http here.

Our customers are win32 shops. And so far
the situation on Windows is far from brilliant:

1) it looks like fastcgi is not workable there.
2) mod_python/apache 1.3 on win32 looks like the
best solution but it is comparably much slower to
its linux counterpart and a bit leaky.

possibly win32 is the issue not mod_python.

In the end, on win32 you have:
- apache 1.3/mod_python (a bit leaky but workable),
- apache 1.3/webware
(great but not as fast and a distinct
sophisticated programming style with no direct
translation for mod_python-based stuff)
 - xitami 2.5/lrwp
(very fast but unable to output binary stuff
as far as we could test and possibly
less secure - not apache by the way).

Hope to find a solution as well.

I may be wrong but i have the feeling that
the python/win32 community is in need of a
fast and supported solution in this area.

Francis

iwk wrote in message <3CDE9D7B.7050408 at xs4all_removethisalso.nl>...
>Hi there,
>
>We've been using a custom developed html/python templating system which
>runs under CGI. It was ported to mod_python one year and a half ago, but
>   as the system was only used for small-scale sites, in the end that
>was never taken into production. Now however, a customer wants to deploy
>the system on Apache 2 running on Win32 and the site is expected to
>attract a rather large number of visistors on occasion. Considering the
>abysmal performance of CGI apps on Windows, this poses a considerable
>problem.
>
>My question is: are there any *stable* solutions available to enable
>fast ptyhon web-apps running on Apache 2/Win32? (Mod_python only runs on
>Apache 1.3 as far as I know and Mod_snake seems to have been taken off
>line....)
>
>Regards,
>
>Iwan
>