[Zope] Optimisation fun and games

[Chris Withers]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> 
> >>> Chris Withers wrote
> > > with rewrite rules,
> > such as?
> 
> Going back two years here, I can't recall the details, but I do remember
> it sometimes "just didn't work" with the rewrite rules and basic auth
> and sometimes even cookies). Getting it working on all the magic different
> things we needed was a total PITA.

Odd, we've never had any problems, particularly since VHM's came along...

> > > the poor error handling,
> > such as?
> 
> When the site behind was down, there was not a lot you could do about the
> errors.

We use an error handler page so the user gets a nice message saying the site is down and
to please try again later... one line in Apache.conf IIRC.

> > > fastcgi is much much more robust for us.
> > ...maybe meaning it was easier to set up _for you_.
> 
> No, I said "robust". I also said "for us", yes.

*grinz*

> No. I can't see that either FCGI or ProxyPass are going to be the
> bottleneck in any publishing situation. I have more than enough to
> do without benchmarking every single bit of the system :P

No worries, just curious :-)

cheers,

Chris