I contacted NexusWeb yesterday and they said they would provide a setup for Zope, but no support. They were not specific as to the setup. They did mention they supported Python. I was going to write them back to see if they ran Zserver, or just provided the links to Apache. They did have msql and mysql. The minimum plan to support Zope was the 50MB/$20 a month plan. The other site was out of my price range ($50/mo). I just started studying Zope yesterday to use for a project I was planning to use Visual Basic/ADO/ASP for. I'm testing on a Win95 machine, but plan to move testing to a Linux box. I decided before signing up with a hosting server to wait for Zope 2, which I've seen a couple of references to. What's the deal on that? One place promised a better integrated web server. If Zope moves more torward being a totally self contained server, then I don't want to mess with Apache or IIS. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Wentworth <rhww@erols.com> To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 4:25 PM Subject: [Zope] Impact of Zope on hosting provider?
Right now my biggest obstacle to setting up a Zope-powered site could be finding a hosting provider I have confidence in who is willing to run Zope. When I asked my first-choice provider about running Zope, they replied:
Though it's true that we can install programs that need root instlall, it only so when the program is low CPU/mem use and non-intrusive. Zope is neither, so to run it you would need to get your own dedicated server through us.
A dedicated server is not a viable option for this site at this point in time. So, a few questions:
1) Are the provider's fears justified? What sort of memory footprint, CPU requirements (for a site that should have fairly low traffic at first), and other impact are Zope likely to have on a hosting provider?
2) Would anyone care to let me know what their experience has been with the two hosting providers (NexusWeb and CodeIt Computing) listed as known to host Zope-based sites? (I've been sufficiently badly burned in the past by bad hosting providers that I cannot justify signing up for a provider without positive recommendations or multiple alternatives for backup.)
Robert Wentworth
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