<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Vik Killa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vipkilla@gmail.com" target="_blank">vipkilla@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I dont understand what they meant by 'listeners'<br>
AFAIK if the web server process is running it will always return the XML<br></blockquote><br></div>Last time I checked, there were one or two websites out there that could handle thousands of requests per second. The web has given birth to tools that allow for many, many concurrent requests. The LAMP stack on a beefy machine can do quite a lot of traffic. Furthermore, MySQL/Postgres/et al all have backup/redundancy/HA options built in, as does Apache/HTTP. It seems to me that you could scale farther and have more redundancy using these time-tested tools. Just my $0.02.<br>
<br>-MC<br><br>P.S. - Don't get me wrong - I really like Lua. I just don't know if it's really a "better" solution to this problem.<br>