Hi,

I am in the midst of developing a "fairly simple" application site,
but where traffic in the real world might be in the "moderate" range
(not low, but not a mega site).

I have been using python for years, and developed several successful
low-traffic sites with it, using various python web tools from my own,
to myghty, mod_python, pylons...I certainly enjoy the programming
aspect of python, but when you want to get a site up and reliably
running and scaled (and find people to maintain it), perhaps other
factors besides the "language" are more important.

Question: is pylons ready for prime time? If one were to develop a
moderate-volume, solid site, is python with pylons the "best" thing to
use? How would a pylons site stack up against sites made with php,
rails, java?  (btw, I anticipate deploying using Apache and the paste
server via reverse-proxy).

Here are things to consider:

1. ease/speed of programming
2. ease of testing
3. scalability
4. reliability
5. maintainability
6. flexibility
7. availability of good libraries

I realize these questions have been asked before, but having my
initial "alpha" nearly finished in pylons, doubts are setting in as to
how deployable and scalable in the *real world* this system might be.
I know that *a lot* of sites (especially large ones) use php (which,
as a language, I am less then crazy about). And various java
frameworks (but java is so much work!). And rails? Well, there seems
to be a bit of a controversy as to its performance, flexibility and
scalability.

Interested in any thoughts folks might have. Thanks.
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