> 2.) "It's not scalable enough." The Washington Post runs on Django; I doubt you're going to get more pageviews than them.
Just FYI, the Washington Post does not use Django for their main page. They only use it for small side projects.
At reddit we tried to use Django, but had to switch to Pylons because, lo and behold, it wasn't scalable. Specifically, it has a problem caching templates under high loads.
Interesting...that's very helpful to know. Did you try memcached? I've heard Pownce has been doing just fine with Django + memcached, and they get a decent amount of traffic.
Just FYI, the Washington Post does not use Django for their main page. They only use it for small side projects.
At reddit we tried to use Django, but had to switch to Pylons because, lo and behold, it wasn't scalable. Specifically, it has a problem caching templates under high loads.