The following was snagged from here:
http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/community.html
> The ArsDigita Community System (ACS) is based on the Oracle 8 RDBMS,
> connected to the Internet via the AOLserver Tcl API. I'm currently
> serving more than 100 requests/second using this combination and know
> that it works. In the long run, I hope the whole system will be
> available in a second version: Microsoft's popular Active Server Pages
> (ASP) talking to either Oracle 8 on NT or the easy-to-administer Solid
> RDBMS. Beyond that, it is too time-consuming to implement a system
> that works with any Web server and any RDBMS. I don't think Web
> publishers should really care what operating system or database
> management system they are running; the important decisions all have
> to do with data model and site philosophy. It is best to quickly pick
> an infrastructure that is known to work and thereafter focus on
> decisions that relate to the business.
What is everyone using? I like the AOLserver. From what I understand it servers as
web and rdbms client as expressed by Greenspun:
> For a properly engineered RDBMS-backed Web site, the RDBMS client is
> the Web server program, e.g., AOLserver. The user types something into
> a form on a Web client (e.g., Netscape Navigator) and that gets
> transmitted to the Web server which has an already-established
> connection to an RDBMS server (e.g., Oracle). The data then goes back
> from the RDBMS server to the RDBMS client, the Web server, which sends
> it back to the Web client:
The FMPro that I used seemed to function in exactly this same way. I did not like the
proprietary nature of it (as I understood it). Tcl is used with AOLserver. Of course
I
would prefer Perl but certainly an open language is better than anything proprietary.
And
with AOLserver I believe you get the source code. What is the equivalent for Apache?
At iserver I use:
Unix BSD/mSQL/Apache
and I would like to have mod_perl to be running but iserver hasn't gotten there yet.
I
would also prefer:
Unix BSD/mySQL/Apache with mod_perl (or is there a module for mySQL ?)
I would like to hear what others are using and whether it's working well for them. I
have
one server on an Alpha running Apache and mSQL and most database lookups take
about 2 seconds spanning 4 tables in which one table is about 20 meg. I still think 2
seconds is too long. But that same query takes about 7-9 seconds on the same setup
over at iserver (pc with pentium pro ~200). No mod_perl installed.
Peter
Peter
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