[gameprogrammer] Design tips for directory server backend for games
- From: Kevin Jenkins <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:50:06 -0800
I'm trying to write a server directory backend for games that is pretty
ambitious. I want to host it using http://code.google.com/appengine/ (Google
app engine) so I don't have to pay monthly fees and can potentially scale
it. I also want a web-based front end for the service so I can support
multiple games, and can assign moderators to manage particular games. It
would also have an SQL database storing the list of running games.
I've never done web programming before, and wanted to ask for advice before
diving in so I don't end up doing a lot of useless work.
For the web interface, it's clear that I need a programming language of some
sort. For example, I need to be able to login to the web interface as admin
in order to manage the list of moderators and therefore show a different
webpage based on who you are. What recommendations do you have? Is Java a
server-side programming language I could use for this? Or Python? I know PHP
can do it. Performance isn't too important for the web-interface, but if I
can use a language close to C or C++ it would make it easier for me to write
and learn. Are there other options?
From the C++ side I already know how to connect to either a service running
TCP, or a http based web service (such as PHP). So I can send queries to the
server, and they need to be processed fast. Should I even use google app
engine for this, or can I process everything in PHP fast enough? For
example, if I am processing thousands of requests a second, can a PHP based
web host handle this? If I use java or python, would this be faster than
PHP? And can I scale multiple instances of the application with google app
engine all using the same database?
Hopefully someone here is knowledgeable about all this. Thanks in advance.
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