[ale] Sysadmin/DBA/Webmaster needed

[Alex Carver]

On 10/11/2012 18:43, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 02:26 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> Job #0 is to make sure whatever is there doesn't go down.
>> Job #1 is to unwind Django and go back to straight LAMP for dynamic
>> content and straight HTML for static content.  Most of the backend stuff
>> was fortunately unharmed because it's not web facing so Django doesn't
>> play a role.
>
> I'm sure that Django isn't, itself, the problem---Django is, when
> correctly used, quite an awesome framework to work with.  When
> applications are correctly written (and deployed correctly!) they run
> wonderfully.
>
> Is the desire for LAMP because PHP is the norm, as opposed to Python?

Yes, because there are a lot of support programs and back end scripts 
that are in PHP.  The system was originally LAMP and during the switch 
to Django it was horribly mangled (doesn't look like it on the surface 
but a lot of internal stuff broke).

The way this system works, it just doesn't fit into frameworks.  Way too 
much custom work.