[Pythonmac-SIG] Doc cgi python

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:55:02 +0100


At 5:05 PM +0100 27-03-2000, Marco Tasselli wrote:
>Just for your knowledge, I've used MacPython with WebStar for building heavy
>CGI like solutions running on a Mac.

Excellent. Thanks Marco, for the report. Alsways nice to hear success
stories... Did you build upon Jack's demo?

>Those are extranet solutions where data are downloaded from a SAP R/3 machine,
>pushed in a database (mac native using gdbm) and served a dinamic pages.
>The Python WebStar solution is quite effective: the server went live a couple
>years ago and is exceptionally stable!
>In one occasion it runned for 5 month without a single reboot and has
>**NEVER** had a crash!

Great.

>Load is not bad at 100.000 queries a month (there are no static pages)

Not bad, but that's not extremely heavy either: it's between 2 and 3 hits
per minute on average...

Just