High performance Python web-app

[Gerhard Häring]

* iwk <iwk_removethis at xs4all_removethisalso.nl> [2002-05-12 18:51 +0200]:
> 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 python web-apps running on Apache 2/Win32?

Not that I know of.

> (Mod_python only runs on Apache 1.3 as far as I know

AFAIR, the current main focus of mod_python development is the Apache
2.0 port.  Maybe a little sponsoring would accellerate development? :-)

> and Mod_snake seems to have been taken off line....)

Oops, that's news to me.

Gerhard
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