Hmmmm. Anyone?

On Jul 14, 11:55 am, DavidG <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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