You will find this generates all sort of opinions. 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. 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 as 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 standard 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�rge Kjeldstad wrote:
Hei,
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).
What would then be the best Zope installation I could make? Would it be Zope with Linux and Apache?
(This might be an hopeless question, but we�ll try :-))
Best regards!
B�rge Kjeldstad