In keeping with my fascination in all things Pythonic, I've been testing a web server called CherryPy -- the basic idea is that you use your python code itself to serve, not a web server to serve. This sounds strange on the face of it, and makes people used to apache nervous. In practice, it feels closer to really creating an app which just so happens to distribute over http rather than a group of loosely tied together scripts accessed via apache. Along with Cheetah, a templating system, it's a nice break from meat & potatoes PHP and I recommend anyone who's been listening to the Ruby on Rails hype to check it out, if at least for sake of ideas.