Thanks for your reply.
I desire/require a platform on which I can scale, preferably by adding
machines. ie: distributed computing.
Zope does this with ZEO. http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO
Erlang has this due to it's inherent nature and also with their web
platform.
http://www.erlang.org and Eddie, http://www.eddieware.org
I am exploring my options right now. I've thought Squeak has looked
interesting for awhile now. I just didn't know if it was ready for this
type of application yet.
I want a good foundation for building my website which will hopefully
get lots of hits. But also I would like to have a good foundation on
which to build a web app server or toolkit with similar features to
either Zope or ACS. For ACS info, http://www.arsdigita.com
So scalability is a must.
I like the idea of Comanche. I like the idea of serving objects on the
web. I know Comanche/Squeak may not be as mature as other technologies
and may not be ready for me at this point. That's okay.
I see this on the STOMP page.
"STOMP, or Squeak Testing Objects Moving in Parallel, is a framework for
implementing distributed network service testing applications in
Squeak."
What is available in Squeak for distributed network services?
I don't find Comanche being at 30% of Apache to be all that bad.
Especially considering it's still beta and there is plenty of room for
improvement on networking primitives. The question is what is available
for distibuting my website across multiple machines? At some point, one
machine will max out.
I don't use NT, so that doesn't help me. Where is Advantive's site?
Thanks again.
Jimmie Houchin
"Jochen F. Rick" wrote:
>
> If you want something that will handle tons of hits and scale widely, you
> should probably stay away from Squeak, because you'd have to implement
> both of those capabilities. I don't know how many hits Advantive gets at
> swiki.net, but they claim to be running at 80% the speed of Apache with a
> really good up time. So, this can be done, but you have to realize that
> they reworked several primitives, and their solution only works with
> WinNT. In a recent test we did, Comanche performed at about 30% the speed
> of Apache. Take a look at the STOMP testing
> (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/27) and the PDF document link at the
> bottom of that page to see if Comanche is worth your consideration.
>
> If you are looking to do a standard website whose goal is the same as
> your average I-want-a-million-hits-a-day website, I'd recomment going
> with something more standard, such as Apache on FreeBSD. If you want to
> play with Squeak or quickly prototype new kinds of functionality, then
> go with Comanche.
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> Je77
