I have Zope and Plone installed on a Pentium 266Mh with 64 MB Memory. And the site is running slow.
What is the most simple (and cheapest) way to increase its speeds? A new CPU, or could buying some more memory (like 256Mb) be enough?
The cheapest way to speed up your site is to throw away the Plone :) At my expirience, it runs 10 times slower than pure CMF, and CMF site runs... say... 5 times slower than plain Zope site built with dtml/PythonScripts. Some time ago i has two sites running at Cel 366/128 RAM with acceptable performance. And that box runs also apache, squid, mysql and even XWindow! BTW, can anyone tell me, what makes Plone so slow? Default setup renders simple pages in 3-4 sec on PIII 800, and even on P4 2,4 site visitor expiriences annoying pauses.