taking python enterprise level?...

[simn_stv]

On Feb 26, 10:32 am, mdipierro <massimodipierr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
taking a look at django right now, doesnt look too bad from where im
standing, maybe when i get into the code i'd run into some issues that
would cause some headaches!!

> 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

but this would probably be to the detriment of my database design,
which is a no-no as far as im concerned. The way the tables would be
structured requires 'joins' when querying the db; or could you
elaborate a little??

> 4) use a server with at least 512KB Ram.

hmmm...!, still thinking about what you mean by this statement also.

> 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

thanks for the feedback...