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