Thanks!

I have a follow-up on question 3:  Is there a way for the separate
apps to be aware of the urls of the other apps?  Or for the server to
provide a list of the apps/urls to each app through the config?

On Jan 2, 11:50 am, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt Haggard wrote:
> > I'm (in the process of) using pylons in a production environment and
> > still have a few questions:
>
> > 1) Do I really have to restart the server every time I make a change
> > (controller/model)?  I can foresee making many changes and some which
> > require immediate attention, but restarting the server in the middle
> > of the day would not be an option.  So, do I have to make changes at
> > night?  Is there no way for the server to adopt the changes without
> > killing all connections?
>
> When restarting any connections in-progress will be completed, and new
> connections will be rejected.  If you are using a frontend like Apache
> that has something to retry connections, no actual requests will fail
> during a restart.
>
> > 2) The system will be composed of multiple apps... (perhaps as many as
> > 20 or more) so would it be better (if I need to restart after every
> > change) to have all the apps served by their own servers?  I mean, is
> > it better to have 20 instances of the paster server if uptime is such
> > a priority?
>
> You might want those apps separate to make them more maintainable (e.g.,
> avoid breaking app A when you upgrade app B).  I'd try to get a setup
> where restarts don't lose any connections, then for uptime it's not an
> issue.
>
> If you want to test how it's working, probably you could fire up
> something like ab (the apache benchmark app) and see if everything works
> right when you restart your app during the run.
>
> --
> Ian Bicking : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :http://blog.ianbicking.org

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