Big site architecture related things

[Lyle - CosmicPerl.com]

Edmund von der Burg wrote:
> Thinking about the recent discussions on this ML about big sites and
> so on these links came to mind. I present them for your delectation:
>
> A discussion by Chris Lightfoot on the guts of the downing street
> petition site (the one that had the million signatures for the road
> changing petition early this year). This is also good because the code
> that runs the site is available to look at:
>
>   http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/
>   http://www.mysociety.org/2006/12/08/under-the-bonnet/
>   https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/dir?d=mysociety/pet     # the code
>   

I've been looking through this, especially at the daemons. My main 
question at this stage, is why petemaild 
<https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/getfile/mysociety/pet/bin/petemaild> 
doesn't use Net::SMTP? I'm assuming there is a good reason for it. Also 
is it safe to assume you could have a similar setup on Win32 servers 
using Win32::Daemon?
The solution to my high traffic volume that I've been working toward 
doesn't use daemon's, although this is certainly making me re-consider.


Lyle