-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <B54B14BD.68C9%jatwood@bwanazulia.com>, J. Atwood <jatwood@bwanazulia.com> writes
Just wondering if Zope.org is an appropriate site for alpha testing software when it should be show casing Zope technology. One gets a bad impression when visiting the site of a web server company to find the web server down :-(
Ever been to Dell.com? Dell, as you know is one of the biggest users of Windows 2000 and MSQL 7.0 for their website. They have tens if not hundreds of servers.
On several occasions, while surfing around the support site looking to fix one Dell problem the site starts giving ODBC SQL error after error. Everything just stops working (IE 5.0 on NT 4.0 SP6a). This is at least three times in the last month.
But they're not promoting a web server technology.
Bank of America, the second largest bank in the country (and my bank) has been known to go down for a whole weekend on a few occasions with nothing more than a splash page to say "tough."
Likewise.
Wouldn't you assume that with millions of dollars in hardware/software and hundreds of developers they could keep a website up? Nope.
I think there are different scales of activity here. Can we compare them with a Zope site that is under a similar load, and has a similar level of complexity?
Zope.org, as you might not know is run on a machine that costs under $1,200 and has a better uptime than both the above examples. Lets cut DC a little slack on this one and realize that when you are running on one machine, you do have to bring things down once in awhile.
Yes, for maintenance. I was just wondering whether it should be allowed to happen because of alpha testing.
DC also walks the walk. They use, love, embrace, support and pound on Zope. Bringing Zope to ZEO is a great idea and we should have it no other way. At least they are not Hotmail (owned by MS) and running on FreeBSD!
I believe that that remains a constant source of embarrassment to MS. - -- Regards, Graham Chiu gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz http://www.compkarori.co.nz/index.php Powered by Zope and Interbase on a machine that cost under $1,200 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBOST70LTRdIWzaLpMEQKaCACffQJgY0ohhZa0k1HgPDEepQTzGQoAoIng 9puQ8GinJMZSHG2KpW8LdDm2 =SDQN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----