High-performance Python websites

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Monday 30 November 2009 10:55:55 inhahe wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM, ShoqulKutlu <kursat.kutlu at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Managing load of high volume of visitors is a common issue for all
> > kind of web technologies. I mean this is not the python issue. This
> > issue is mostly about server level designs. You need to supply load
> > balancing for both web servers and databases to make your web site
> > able to respond to several concurrent visitors. Of course a good
> > programmed website is a key performance issue but for your mention
> > I would also suggest considering how many hardwares, how many
> > webservers, how many database cluster and which database server
> > should be used or will be used in the future..
> 
> I don't know a lot about this issue, but take apache + php.  every
> time a page is loaded a new instance of php  is loaded to run the
> page, 

AFAIK that's only the case for PHP-CGI, and Python as a CGI scripting 
language is used the same way. Apache is very often run with mod_php, 
though, which embeds the PHP interpreter; mod_python does something 
similar for Python.


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