High-performance Python websites

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Rami Chowdhury a écrit :
> 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.

Yeps.

> Apache is very often run with mod_php, 
> though, which embeds the PHP interpreter; mod_python does something 
> similar for Python.

Indeed.

And FWIW, this has very few impact wrt/ load balancing issues.