<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Edwards</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@dragonstaff.com">peter@dragonstaff.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>Are you hitting the database very hard? Complex joins? Are your pages<br>very complex?<br>No, it's a fairly simple backend processor that mostly handles XML<br>transactions for a Flash frontend. There are some XHTML admin pages
<br>generated with Template::Toolkit (and so are slower) but they are rarely<br>hit.<br><br>For the database a typical run hits a session table, user table, writes a<br>log table and reads data from a couple of other tables. No complex joins.
<br>The app handles user registration, some league tables, polls, competition<br>entries and users submitting images that are approved and shown on the site.<br><br>In this case I knew there was the potential for a huge number of users so
<br>went for a lightweight approach that could easily be tuned further. For a<br>more complex app with fewer peak users I'd have used Catalyst.</blockquote><div><br>what other light weight approach would you go for?<br>
so are you saying in general catalyst is pretty heavy, and its not for site with many concurrent users?... <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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