CppCMS is a free high performance web development framework aimed at
rapid web application development.  It differs from most other web
development frameworks like: Python Django, Java Servlets in the 
following ways:

* It is designed and tuned to handle extremely high loads.
* It uses modern C++ as the primary development language in order to 
  achieve the first goal.
* It is designed for developing both web sites and web services.

WWW: http://www.cppcms.com