[Zope] Zope evaluation questions

[Andreas Jung]

--On Freitag, 10. Oktober 2003 9:54 Uhr -0400 Jeff Rankin 
<jrankin at oneil.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'm a new Zope user and I'm evaluating Zope for use in a few projects. One
> project is an online parts system for a truck manufacturer (about 3000
> 'hits' per day). This is a project we've been maintaining for a few years
> in Cold Fusion. While performance of the application is OK, we're
> concerned with CF's lack of extensibility, and we're also moving towards
> open source solutions. I have some questions about Zope I'm hoping you
> can answer:
>
> 1. Can you share experiences about using Zope with IIS?

There is no need for IIS. Zope can run standalone.
>
> 2. Is it still absolutely necessary to use Zope behind another web server?
> Most of the info on the web I've found about not using Zope's web server
> is a few years old.

Zope has its own Webserver. You want to run Zope behind Apache and Squid
for caching and virtual hosting issues.

> 3. In terms of templating systems, do you find yourselves using DTML or
> ZPT?

DTML sucks. Use ZPT.

>
> 4. If the initial Zope-based projects work out well, we're going to
> consider using Zope on a much bigger project. At peak times, this project
> has about 200 concurrent users. It'a a very database intensive
> application. Will Zope scale well to something of this size? The current
> version of this application is a load-balanced Cold Fusion setup.
>

Mostly read or write access? Zope scale fine with ZEO. Lots of concurrent 
write
might be a problem but there are ways to handle this. It depends on your 
setup
how to approach the problem.

-aj