Would that be the decision of the webserver? gevent uses a event-per-request and it is written completely in python.
-- Thadeus On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:45 AM, John Heenan <[email protected]> wrote: > The elephant in the room has not gone away Massimo. > > Web2py is great for small projects. > > DotNet is great for small and large projects. > > The elephant in the room is not only the untested scalibility of > web2py but also the amount of resources that neeeds to be thrown at > web2py compared to DotNet and other frameworks as scale increases. > > One of the glaring defciences in web frameworks that use Python is the > glaring engineering weakness of using thread per request web serving > instead of using event per request web serving. I think I have pointed > this out a number of times on this fourm, but it just does not sink > in. I even pointed out how Linux loast a PR war over this issue. > > There is no need for Python based web frameworks to use thread per > request web serving. > > John Heenan > > On Nov 30, 4:05 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) > > > > >
