Scalability on the web

Question

I\'ve been arguing with some friends on the university, and we can\'t get to a point to which is the framework with more scalability for web applications (and still very fast).<

Answer 1

A: C ISAPI dll (or custom apache module) :)

Even then the overhead of the web server, parsing the http requests and serving the html pages makes the execution time of your apps almost irrelevant. If you run your app as a CGI app, then expect even less performance.

For scalability in the web, you're really talking about adding more servers and load balancing, taking load off the server by putting the database (if heavily used) on a separate server.

The raw performance of those languages are almost nothing to worry over. Use the one you want to use, that you will be most productive with. Worry over the other issues you'll run into - network io, security, correctness.