taking python enterprise level?...

[mdipierro]

100,000 hits a day is not a low. I get that some day on my web server
without problem and without one request dropped.

Most frameworks web2py, Django, Pylons can handle that kind of load
since Python is not the bottle neck.
You have to follow some tricks:

1) have the web server serve static pages directly and set the pragma
cache expire to one month
2) cache all pages that do not have forms for at least few minutes
3) avoid database joins
4) use a server with at least 512KB Ram.
5) if you pages are large, use gzip compression

If you develop your app with the web2py framework, you always have the
option to deploy on the Google App Engine. If you can live with their
constraints you should have no scalability problems.

Massimo



On Feb 25, 4:26 am, simn_stv <nany... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> hello people, i have been reading posts on this group for quite some
> time now and many, if not all (actually not all!), seem quite
> interesting.
> i plan to build an application, a network based application that i
> estimate (and seriously hope) would get as many as 100, 000 hits a day
> (hehe,...my dad always told me to 'AIM HIGH' ;0), not some 'facebook'
> or anything like it, its mainly for a financial transactions which
> gets pretty busy...
> so my question is this would anyone have anything that would make
> python a little less of a serious candidate (cos it already is) and
> the options may be to use some other languages (maybe java, C (oh
> God))...i am into a bit of php and building API's in php would not be
> the hard part, what i am concerned about is scalability and
> efficiency, well, as far as the 'core' is concerned.
>
> would python be able to manage giving me a solid 'core' and will i be
> able to use python provide any API i would like to implement?...
>
> im sorry if my subject was not as clear as probably should be!.
> i guess this should be the best place to ask this sort of thing, hope
> im so right.
>
> Thanks