On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:04:03AM -0400, Kent Johnson wrote: > H.C. v. Stockhausen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:35:37AM -0700, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > >> Hi! Google announced an app server > > > how safe is it to just run the dev server, as I didn't get one of the > > prerelease accounts either. > > If by 'safe' you mean 'secure', I don't really know but I guess it is > probably pretty safe. The dev server is based on BaseHTTPServer and > other elements of the Python std lib. > > If by 'safe' you mean 'robust', then no. I wouldn't use the dev server > for a production server: > - The dev server is single-threaded - it only serves one request at a > time. > - The datastore is written in Python so it will probably not match the > performance of PostgreSQL or the native Google Apps datastore. > - The default datastore stores all objects in memory so it will not > scale well. > - User login is stubbed out
Thanks for your reply, Kent. I woulnd't expect the dev server to scale too well either. Security is what I was mainly concerned with. Just in case, I have resricted access to the development console at /_ah/admin through HTTP basic authentication. Thanks, HC _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor