Intelluctual Property, consumer protection and Zope...:D. What kind of stuff are you into with Zope/python there at sleepydog?. Using Zope to build a consumer-focused website (to support a mobile phone product) that may need to scale to vast numbers of hits. Hence a lot of focus on caching - it's dynamic in the sense that the pages are generated by templates, but they change sufficiently seldom that both levels of Zope cache can be used (as appropriate, as Jamie H. points out) to serve very high numbers of requests with minimal Zope load. I chose Zope because I have a bunch of extremely non-web-tech-literate people populating the site (all the content interfacing is via the ZMI) and because I have to do most of the engineering myself and I'd far rather work in Python than mess around with PHP or Perl (or even... shudder... ASP).
We're also working on a PlayStation game that has a vast database behind it; that's all Python/MySQL driven, but it uses ZODB for intermediate result caching of some very compute-intensive stuff that can take a couple of days to run. Which brings me to a question - I'm at the point of sorting out Zope hosting. Anyone got recommendations for a good hosting company, Linux-based, Zope-literate, that'll scale from a single dedicated server to a load-balanced cluster (as required)? UK preferred, EU second choice, US if we have to (I don't have anything against the US, it's the time difference that can be an issue). Ben