Looking for a high performance web server written in Python, and supports CGI/FastCGI

[Tim Williams]

On 7 Jul 2006 06:27:43 -0700, Gerard Flanagan <grflanagan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Tim Williams wrote:
> > On 07/07/06, Jack <nospam at invalid.com> wrote:
> > > I just did some testing between CherryPy's web server and lighttpd.
> > > My test was very simple and I used ab.exe for this purpose.
> > > CherryPy web server can serve about 140 simple request / second, while
> > > lighttpd can handle around 400 concurrent requests.
> > >
> > > > You haven't really said much about your requirements though.  Perhaps
> > > > if you describe them in more detail (for example, what does "high
> > > > performance" mean to you?) someone can make a more useful recommendation.
> > > >
> >
> > Karrigell has an async server, in standalone mode it won't be as fast
> > as lighttpd but its simpler to use and code in than cherrypy.
> > However, it can also work behind lighttpd,  so you might get a good
> > mix of server speed and fast development time.
> >
> > http://www.karrigell.com
> >
>
> Yes, agree about Karrigell's quick development time - an almost flat
> learning curve if you've programmed for the web before, and none of the
> arcana which you can run into  elsewhere.
>
> "high performance"? - I'm using it to provide an intranet for a small
> library with *three* networked computers - performance is impeccable!

If you disable the Reverse-DNS lookups in one of the python (not
Karrigell) web modules (I'll dig out a previous post somewhere about
this),  it speeds up karrigell tremendously,  my apps aren't huge,
but I have no problems with karrigell across   the internet :)