I have worked with 10s of python people and there transition to web2py was easy. Ruby itself is hard to find, but python is much more popular.
On Sunday, August 10, 2014 8:20:43 PM UTC+3, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > In my opinion the server costs are negligible whichever way you go. Most > RoR users like Heroku (no persistent file system, only db storage, > autoscale). For web2py we tend to prefer PythonAnywhere.com (like a vps but > autoscale) and Google App Engine (better autoscale than anything but no > filesystem, only db storage). For both if the number of users is not too > intensive, you can use any normal virtual machine. I like DigitalOcean.com. > It is cheap and easy to use. > > The main issue here is (b). Your algorithms are likely to be in Python > (numpy/scipy/scikit/etc) and it will be much much easier to access them > from a Python framework. In web2py we provide a built-in scheduler which > allows you (if you run on a VPS) to submit computing intensive tasks and > execute them asynchronously and in parallel. > > I have worked a lot with financial applications. For example I have worked > with the Vertica database to fetch stock quotes. Both web2py and RoR can > talk to Vertica but in the case of web2py you can use the database > abstraction layer, in case of RoR you have to use SQL. > > About security (a). You cannot beat the security of web2py. Friday I am > giving a talk at OWASP in Orange County about this. I will post slides. The > University where I teach was one of the first in the country to receive a > certificate of excellence from the NSA. This was not about web2py but this > is to say we are security experts. > > Costs of development are probably the same but it will be harder to find > web2py developers but finding good RoR developers is also hard. Maintenance > costs are lower in web2py. > > Anyway, I am sure others here have some opinions to share. > > Massimo > > > > > > On Sunday, 10 August 2014 01:43:02 UTC-5, Suresh Mali wrote: >> >> >> I am trying to zero on web framework for our startup, >> requirements >> a. Security ( we are working on financial info hence this is important) >> b. Good way of accessing algos/data of python Machine learning programs >> c. Low cost of hosting and development (a strartup with not much funds >> :-) looking for cloud hosting options. >> d. Relatively low userbase maybe a 1 million in a year's time (looking to >> server niche ) >> >> After reading a bit have zeroed on Ruby on Rails and Web2Py. >> Looks like ROR is extremly quick, but might have higher hosting costs.. >> difficulty of mainitaining etc. other hand web2py seems to pull good >> things from ROR, but very small community and still early stages.. >> Please suggest, other suggestion liky Play, django etc. welcome if you >> feel strongly >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
