Cherrypy : Do I really need to put it behind a frontend?
问题 I've been working on a python web app using cherrypy and read it'd be more "robust" to use it as a backend, so I gave it a try. Shortly put, running some benchmarks on a page doing some database operations and serving static & dynamic content has shown that plain cherrypy was twice as fast than nginx and memcached, and about half faster than lighttpd. I heard the latter had memory leak issues, so refrained from using it. And yes, both nginx and lighttpd were configured to serve the static