[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Date Index]
[Thread Index]
- Subject: Re: CGILua
- From: gary ng <garyng2000@...>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 20:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
--- Pete Kay <petedao@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> The application has two characteristics:
>
> 1. DB access intensive - almost everypage has data
> fetching and a lot of
> tables
Not sure if lua's SQL binding fits the bill.
> 2. Real-time monitor - many pages have real-time
> interaction with a back-end
> server using AJAX.
>
I believe this is lua/php neutral as it is purely
client side thing so should not have any weight in
selecting lua or php.
> Budget is small so I can't afford a large cluster of
> Apache server, but high
> availability is still required.
again, unless you run a lua based server(like
xavante), this point should have no weight as far as
lua vs php is concerned.
>
> I have done a lot of work with PHP before, but I
> feel Lua is lighter and can
> be more scalable for what my application.
Is it a good idea to try something seems to be new to
you when you said budget is small ?
