And this without considering "vendor lock-in". web2py can run on a variety of platforms such as windows, macs. Linux and others, same goes for the selection of the back-end database. Much more flexibility under web2py in my opinion and prototyping is much faster in python.
On Nov 29, 10:05 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> 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 <lriv...@mosasaur.com> 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:lriv...@mosasaur.com> > > 512/203.3198 (m)
