[Zope] Zope Best Possible Installation

[Dennis Allison]

You will find this generates all sort of opinions.=20

I just recently chose a machine for a Zope/MySQL web application--a bit
more industrial strength than perhaps is needed, but that's what the
customer demands.  Our configuration is a 2U rackmount with hotpluggable
disks and significant cooling capability becasue of tremendous airflow. =20
Redundant power supply. The processors are dual Athlon 2800's--not the
bleeding edge but almost. 4GB of memory (registered/ECC), but PC2100 not
PC2600.  A 3Ware Escalade RAID with 4 SATA disks (4 x 120GM) configured a=
s
a Raid 10 and an 80 GB system disk. CD-ROM for system loads, dual
10/100/1000 MB ethernet ports.  The Tyan board has a graphics contoller
suitable for a systems console. Hardware cost is just a bit more than
$5000.

We'll probably run RH 9 once the threading issues get sorted out. Until
then, R 7.3 which has proven to be exceptionally stable.  Python 2.3.1
with large file support.  Zope 2.6.1 with a variety of custom and standar=
d
products and extensions.  We'll run multiple instance of Zope rather than
use VHM.  We'll use MySQL as the backend Database and use ZEO to provide
strorage management for some (but not all) of our Zopes.

We'll use Pound as our front-end to provide Internet isolation, load
balancing, virtual hosting, and SSl support.

Is this a 'best" configuration?  It's hard to tell.  Based on our
experience with a similar machine (2GB memory, no RAID) the workloads we
project will not really challenge the machine.


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] B=F8rge Kjeldstad wrote:

> Hei,
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> Say I wanted to use Zope and I had enough money to buy a fairly good
> server to run it on.
> Further, say I could choose the OS I wanted (Linux or Microsoft)
> And further, say I wanted Zope (some time in the future) to communicate
> with some other
> programs that I am yet not aware of (these could be an sql-database,
> some math-programs and more).
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> What would then be the best Zope installation I could make? Would it be
> Zope with Linux and Apache?
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> (This might be an hopeless question, but we=92ll try :-))
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> Best regards!
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> B=F8rge Kjeldstad
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