[Zope] system requirements

[Jens Vagelpohl]

for real scalability i would suggest the following:

- plan on having separate boxes from day 1:
	- ZEO server
	- 1-* appservers
	- 1-2 cache servers
	- database server

sending lots of mail out of zope is not a good idea if you don't have a 
solution that uncouples the mailing process from zope itself. your users 
will be waiting forever if you use the standard built-in mail handling.

caching is very important but it is not possible if your content is 
super-personalized.

jens


On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 10:31 , Tom Nixon wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need to quote for a fairly big Zope site and I am trying to work out
> what sort of spec machine I will need for hosting.
>
> The brief is for a minimum of 50 concurrent users, rising to a possible
> 2000. They will be doing a lot of searching on the site, and there will
> be quite a lot of e-mails sent out by Zope. The site will also use an
> SQL database - either mySQL or postgreSQL.
>
> My current thinking is:
>
>  - Linux: RedHat?
>  - Zope with ZEO in case it expands beyond one box
>  - Apache
>  - Squid?
>  - 512 MB RAM
>  - 18 GB SCSI with RAID
>  - 1.8 GHZ processor
>
> Am I along the right lines?
>
> Will Zope coexist nicely with the database on the same box or should
> they be separate from day one?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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