Re: [mongrel2] Photon self hosted website is up and running
- From:
- Tang Daogang
- Date:
- 2011-02-26 @ 03:28
Great! I am glad to hear that, and will study on it :)
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Loic d'Anterroches <loic@ceondo.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am very pleased to announce that Photon has finally a self hosted
> website.
>
> http://www.photon-project.com/
>
> As a reminder, Photon is a PHP (5.3.2+) framework which has been
> developed to work specifically behind Mongrel2. The goal of the
> framework is to stay small and fast. All the "extra" which tend to make
> the current frameworks a bit bloated will be pushed other projects. So,
> yes, you are able to use the ORM you want, etc...
>
> The server specs are:
>
> - small OpenVZ VM with 256MB of RAM, 1 core. It servers 3000 req/s for
> a static file and 1000 req/s for the about page. No caching.
> - Photon 0.0.4
> - Mongrel 1.5 and associated procer
> - zmq 2.0.10
> - 3 single thread Photon handlers to reply to Mongrel2.
>
> Some remarks:
>
> - It is really easy to get Mongrel2 up and running on a bare
> Ubuntu/debian installation. It means that it will be easy
> to write a tutorial "from bare Ubuntu to a chat server".
> - Both Photon itself and Mongrel2 are running under supervision of
> procer. Procer itself is not supervised.
> - CSS and everything is going through the handler, I was too lazy to
> setup a Dir handler for the assets. But the PEAR channel
> http://dist.photon-project.com is only static with a Dir().
> - I suppose this is one of the first full website in production
> running both Mongrel2 and PHP. Can I claim the crown? ;-)
>
> With respect to Photon itself:
>
> - The documentation is still lacking a tutorial and some core
> components are not yet available (especially form validation).
> - It is still "alpha" release.
> - A good example is missing.
>
> Next week I will start to port a "real" website on top of
> Mongrel2/Photon. A chemical search engine: http://www.chemeo.com
> This will be a good test of the tandem.
>
> For specific Photon discussion, you are welcome here:
> photon.users@librelist.com
>
> So, thank you all for your hard work and contributions, it works! :)
> loïc
>
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