Re: [Caml-list] Correct way of programming a CGI script

[Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>]

> Hi! I am in a process of making a website (which might receive substantial
> amounts of traffic), and am considering options for the backend. I discarded
> PHP and other similar server-side scripting languages, due to performance
> (...)

Hi Tom,

I suggest you take a look at Ocsigen (http://www.ocsigen.org/).  It's
a fully-featured web server written in OCaml, that not only supports
static pages and traditional CGI programming, but also has a module
called Eliom that allows you to build dynamic websites using all the
best features of the OCaml language.

As for performance, the bottleneck will surely be the database backend.
Even when generating dynamic pages with Eliom, Ocsigen can easily output
close to a hundred pages per second on a decent machine.  (And of course
it's even faster with static content!)

Cheers,
Dario Teixeira



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