Harlin Seritt wrote: > I want to make a recommendation to a group of internal customers where > I work concerning a Python web framework. They are seeking to build a > portal that can handle around 5000 total users but probably no more > than 100-200 simultaneous users. This is supposed to serve mainly > static content - the content will hold references, tutorials and > examples for different technologies, a forum (similar probably to > phpbb) and podcasts (rss and mp3 files). Also I believe it will > definitely need a decent DB server for this. >
Django. :-) Why not just use static HTML for the static content ? You can serve RSS and mp3s as static content too. Do you need CMS capabilities via the web interface ? Then you can just use a separate forum program. Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > They have some other suggestions ranging from Websphere/JSP's to PHP. I > personally don't think the PHP will scale well for growth and I also > think that using Java/JSPs will be too slow for this sort of thing. > > I normally work as system and application admin and use Python in a > number of ways to get the job done. Naturally, I am naturally inclined > to suggest something that uses Python or something "Pythonic". I wanted > to suggest Zope but there are also other ones I'm thinking of as well > like CherryPy and Karrigell. Which one of these (or other ones you guys > know of) would do the best job in this situation? > > Also do you guys know if MySQL would work with this or should they use > something more robust like DB2 (IBM shop)? > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks, > > Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list