We know .NET will scale to thousands of nodes IF you write the .NET code right. If you write crappy code (and that's inevitable if you don't like .NET or you don't know .NET), it will not only NOT run on thousands of nodes, but will probably crash all of them.
Having said that... if they can help you write better code on .NET than you currently write in web2py, the above argument turns on you. On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Lorin Rivers <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, the killing argument is "we know .NET will scale to thousands > of nodes, blah, blah, blah". > > This from (a guy who's smart and I respect, honestly) who uses his brand-new > top-of-the-line 17" MBP to run Windows VMs in Parallels. > > On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:20 , Julio Schwarzbeck wrote: > >> And this without considering "vendor lock-in". web2py can run on a >> variety of platforms such as windows, macs. Linux and others, same >> goes for the selection of the back-end database. Much more flexibility >> under web2py in my opinion and prototyping is much faster in python. >> >> On Nov 29, 10:05 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You achieve scalability by replicating the web server behind a load >>> balancer. This is documented in the book, chapter 11, using HAProxy. >>> All frameworks work the same way in this respect. web2py has no >>> intrinsic limitations. The bottle neck is the database connection. All >>> frameworks have the same problem. You can replicate the database too >>> and web2py supports multiple database clients with Round-Robin. >>> >>> On a small VPS, web2py in average, should execute one page in 20ms. >>> Depending on how many requests/second you need you can determine how >>> many servers you need. >>> >>> web2py apps run on Google App Engine and that means arbitrary >>> scalability as long as you can live with the constraints imposed by >>> the Google datastore (these limitations will go away as soon as Google >>> releases MySQL in the cloud, which they announced some time ago). >>> >>> Please ask the consultant: which .NET feature makes it scale any >>> better than web2py or Rails? If he explains we can address it more >>> specifically. >>> >>> Massimo >>> >>> On Nov 29, 11:56 am, Lorin Rivers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> The project I'm working on has hired a consultant who is now recommending >>>> .Net in place of web2py or even rails. >>> >>>> What's the 'largest' scale web2py is known to perform well on? >>> >>>> -- >>>> Lorin Rivers >>>> Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> 512/203.3198 (m) > > -- > Lorin Rivers > Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> > <mailto:[email protected]> > 512/203.3198 (m) > > > -- Branko Vukelić [email protected] [email protected] Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny Gimp Brushmakers Guild http://bit.ly/gbg-group
