On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Graham Dumpleton < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 11 June 2010 11:19, Shady <[email protected]> wrote: > > @ Jason Garber > > > > I can't believe I overlooked your post but it's very helpful. I think > > I might be going with Linode instead of rackspace, but did everything > > you post also apply with Linode servers? Like are the repos made for > > rackspace or are they also compatible with Linode servers? > > > The mentioned RPMs will work for any RedHat Enterprise 5 derivitive -- centos, oracle enterprise linux (I think), scientific linux, etc... So the hosting provider doesn't matter -- I just personally use Rackspace for a business and personal stuff. Feel free to contact me directly for more specific documentation or advice about getting setup. > > Also, how is it possible to check the amount of requests per second a > > server can handle? I plan on testing my current host with my new host > > to see the amount of improvement. > > I used `ab` which ships with apache. However, there are a lot of factors that impact performance. Raw tests won't help much. I find testing useful with a real page that does real queries to the DB (eg, logged in user), to see how the system handles sustained load. This is important to me because my web apps tend to be hit concurrently by a lot of users when attending a marketing conference, for example. > In general, benchmarks aren't really going to tell you much. You would > be better off using that time improving the performance of your Python > application so as to drop time taken for requests through caching > and/or improved database access through use of indexing etc Graham > > mod_wsgi is fast. Python is reasonably fast. I also suggest you spend your time making sure your app is solid and well designed. In my experience, reducing database queries and making them faster is typically the thing you want to tackle first in a lot of web applications. JG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en.
