High volume websites using Python web server software?  Michael
Sparks michaels at rd.bbc.co.uk Wed Oct 27 17:07:11 CEST 2004
Irmen de Jong wrote:  > Hi, > Things like Twisted, medusa,
etc.... that claim to be able > to support hundreds of
concurrent connections because of the > async I/O framework
they're based on.... > can someone give a few examples of some
web sites actually > using those Python frameworks?  What do you
define as high volume? Different people have different
expectations here. I would say for example that high volume
starts at around 10-20 million requests per day, but even that
is an order of magnitude too low to *really* be viewed as high
volume, _unless_ you're only counting valid page impressions and
not all web objects served.  That said at that level you're
generally dealing with a server farm, and no matter how big you
think *your* site is, there's (almost) always someone bigger
*especially* IF you factor in web proxy systems as being web
server software as well.  Also do you mean