On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Hung Jung Lu wrote:
Hi,
This is a general question. I am a newbie in Zope, I apologize if I miss something obvious.
If a website eventually becomes big and needs several servers to handle the requests, what would be the ideal configuration for Zope?
Can one run several copies of Zope on different machines, all sharing the same Data.fs database file? If so, how does one do it?
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The basic idea is that I want the website to be scalable, so if the load becomes heavy, one can just add more servers to aliviate the situation. For the above configuration, how many copies of PCGI needs to be running?
Check out: http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/ZEOFactSheet.pdf Short story: Yes, you can do this with the ZEO add-on ($$) from DC. It pulls ZODB out into a separate process, potentially running on a separate machine, which handles all object storage for one or more Zope instances. In this way, you can scale Zope exactly as you desire.
Hung Jung
--Jeff