Joseph they are not a single server environment. You cluster them! It is like saying MySQL or Casandra are single server environments - combine them all and that would be one hell of a server sites like Facebook and Dig run off of ;) As for Fast - try Google's or Amazon's offering - WOW That is some speed! You'll start to feel like it's running on a cluster of iPhones! On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Apache and Tomcat are not even close to distributed computing environments. > They're single-server environments, and neither is even particularly fast in that role. > They are both well known and well supported, however. > If your application is simple enough to run on a single server (no matter how many users, as long as there aren't too many at one time), then that type of solution is fine (and a lot easier to program). > If your application's processing gets more complex as more users log in (relatively few applications do this), then no number of instances of a single-server-model web-server will handle the load, and you'll have to accept harder programming in order to scale beyond a few hundred thousand users. > > > Bryan O'Neal wrote: >> Every time I run the analysis your better off writing for a >> distributable open source app engine, like Apache / Tomcat. And >> horizontally spanning as required on commodity hosts, like go daddy. >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Doc Media wrote: >>> Anyone had experience (good or bad) with Google's App Engine? �A friend >>> of mine was looking to start a project, and we were discussing the finer >>> points of a regular hosting company versus something like App Engine. >>> Any insights would be helpful. >>> >>> - Scott > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss