And also don't forget to index any columns that might benefit from it (basically anything used as a key). In the past I built a complete site with Apache 1.3, mod_perl, template toolkit and PostgreSQL (using DBI to interface). It was fast, but only after adding a reverse-proxy in front of the mod_perl server. The only downside was the tremendous amount of memory this setup used. Actually there was another downside as well: it took me some time to figure out the intricacies of mod_perl. If you don't even know Perl to begin with, then the learning curve will be much higher for you. There are alternatives to mod_perl (eg, SpeedyCGI) but I'm not familiar with them and so can't comment on that. Needless to say though, plain old CGI scripts can only go so far...

In reply to Re^2: Advice of picking the language for my job, please by Anonymous Monk
in thread Advice of picking the language for my job, please by gb_lexter

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