OT: why do web BBS's and blogs get so slow?

[David Steuber]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:

> 1) It would be single threaded web server (asyncore, twistedmatrix)
> with a select loop talking to a socket, either on port 80 directly, or
> to a proxy web server running mod_gzip, SSL, and so forth.

Is this how you would handle concurrency?

Also, how bad is using files really?  A decent Unix will use memory
to cache files, abstracting disk io behind the scenes for you.

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