northband wrote: > Hi, I am interested in re-writing my website in Python vs PHP but have > a few questions. Here are my specs, please advise as to which > configuration would be best: > > 1.Dell Poweredge Server, w/IIS, currently Windows but considering > FreeBSD
I may be a bit biased, but I would not run a web server under Windows... > 2. Site consists of result pages for auctions and items for sale (100 > per page) > 3. MySQL (Dell Poweredge w/AMD) database server connected to my web > server Have you considered Postgresql instead ? > 4. Traffic, 30 million page loads/month > > I am trying to have the fastest page loads, averaging 100 items per > result page. I have read about using Apache's mod_python so I could > use PSP. That's a possible solution. > Any help or tips are appreciated. You may eventually be interested in Django (full stack MVC web framework, runs on mod_apache, supports both MySQL and Postgresql) http://www.djangoproject.com/ or Myghty (Python's extended port of Perl::Mason, runs on mod_apache, not tied to any RDBMS) + eventually SQLAlchemy (orm) http://www.myghty.org/ http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ Now I can't tell if either one or the other beats PSP when it comes to raw perfs... My 2 cents -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list