I run a small website in a Linux VM on Azure with WSGI. Seems to work fine. It's just a VM as any other.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Massimo Di Pierro < [email protected]> wrote: > Just some comments about 4. Web2py was not meat as a teacher tool. Web2py > was meant to enforce good practice and this made it a good teaching tool. > Not quite the same. In fact web2py is based on WSGI and it does run on > Heroku. There is a session in the manual about that. I never tried Iron.io > or Azure but I am sure it runs there as any other WSGI server does. > > > > On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 11:54:43 UTC-5, Derek wrote: >> >> Well, if you look at the benchmarks, several things stand out. >> >> 1. All the WSGI servers are pre-loaded. That means the code is already >> pre-compiled and loaded in ram, ready to run. Web2py doesn't quite work >> that way, because each request loads the database, does migrations if >> necessary, and inserts a lot of objects into the scope. >> >> 2. They are all using gunicorn, which spawns about 4 workers on startup. >> We could certainly run Web2py in WSGI mode with gunicorn, but it wouldn't >> make much a difference. I believe if we are going to support sessions, they >> should be off by default and use a decorator @session_enabled or something >> like that. However, that may go against Web2py principles. >> >> 3. Those benchmarks are not development type setups. If we are going to >> compare benchmarks, we'll need to make sure that our configuration matches >> theirs. >> >> 4. Web2py was meant to be a teaching tool. However, as it is now, what >> it's teaching is years old. Now everything needs to be WSGI so you can run >> it on a PAAS such as Heroku, Iron.io, Azure, etc. >> >> It's good to know how we compare with performance, but at the same time, >> I think we need to be realistic. Web2py needs to be re-architectured if >> we're going to see wider adoption in the future. >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:31:19 AM UTC-7, Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> How we can improve web2py to match the fastest python web frameworks >>> performance? >>> >>> http://www.techempower.com/**benchmarks/#section=intro<http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=intro> >>> >>> Surely, with many brains we can offer some method to improve that! >>> >>> Saludos, >>> >>> ------------------------------**-- >>> Alfonso de la Guarda >>> Twitter: @alfonsodg >>> Redes sociales: alfonsodg >>> Telef. 991935157 >>> 1024D/B23B24A4 >>> 5469 ED92 75A3 BBDB FD6B 58A5 54A1 851D B23B 24A4 >>> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Alexei Vinidiktov -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
