In general, are sockets used for intra-machine communication less
likely to fail/hang than, say, trying to connect across countries? I
would think so, right?
How do web servers handle connections to SQL databases? Do they spawn a
thread? Or is it all inline? Seems like that's the type of
behaviour
Here's my situation:
I'm writing a simple reminder bot which will IM me based on input from
a web server. Right now, I have a simple AIM bot written using twisted
2 words. It logs into AIM and can send/receive messages. There's part
1.
I have a django server running under mod_python through apach
