I'm looking for some observations on a best practices for setting up ZOPE, which products to use and how to use them. We've been using ZOPE/CMF for about a year now and it's great but we have run into a few problems which I think are setup issues and so we are looking at the architecture again. The architecture I'm thinking of going with right now is: Apache (rewrite rule) -----> ZEO Client -----> ZEO Storage Server (using ZODB) I think Plone/CMF is definitely in as well as Archetypes, External Editor, BTreeFolder2, DCWorkflow, and EPOZ. We need a DEV and QA area on separate machines from the Production instances but an easy means of migrating templates, python, and infrastructure code from one stage to the next. In the past we've used ZSyncer with decent success. But is there a better way, maybe using something via CVS or some other product I'm not familiar with just yet? We have about 3000+ documents (policies, procedures, how-tos, bulletins), daily updates by the content managers (time sensitive information), and probably about 19gb of bandwidth a month consumed (2 million hits a month) with those documents served from the old IIS server. We've previously used DCOracle2 and DCOracleStorage to house field level content and may continue down that path for some simple feeds using ZSQL, but I think the majority will remain in the ZODB. Keeping it all in Oracle seemed too problematic with our setup. We continually have problems packing because of allocation of rollback segments and the database bloating exponentially (300 meg of uploaded code somehow consumed 1.8gb or Oracle table space). My main concern is that the system needs to be responsive. So if using another storage mechanism gains 500ms or more per transaction I'd be willing to look into it. But it also needs to be fairly easy to maintain because we're working with EDS. Our content developers have typically used Frontpage but are NOT good at creating HTML documents, script, CSS or anything that would be considered "CODE". Essentially they use Frontpage like you'd use Word or Powerpoint. So we'd like to have as many tools as possible to ease their content creation and formatting efforts. I'd thought about teaching them structured text and/or using EPOZ. But our goal is really to keep the content being entered as clean as possible from ye ol' legacy code (font, b, small, i, and such) and to take advantage of some existing CSS files that are shared between many of our sites/systems. Does anyone have any success stories, documentation, suggestions, or even failures so that I don't go down the wrong path. _________________________________________________________________ Get holiday tips for festive fun. http://special.msn.com/network/happyholidays.armx