Tiago Antão wrote:
Hi!
We're considering using zope for a somewhat large project: It's a VPN for arround 10.000 institutions ( >100.000 users expected, up to 1.500.000 users possible, but not likely). Hundreds of simultaneous connections expected. The database has to support >100.000 users and a LOT of content (more than 1000 virtual hosts, along with a very big main site).
The question is: Is zope up to this?
Depends, would your site(s) be read-intensive, or write-intensive? If the former, it should hold fine (depending on how it is set up, of course), if the latyter, you may look into combining Zope with a seperate SQL server to hold write-intensive data. With ~1.5M users, The question is more related, from what I can tell of your situation, to how many users at a time will be connected, and how 'dynamic' the content is. Without more detail, I can't really answer much better. If you have the hardware: o a dedicated SQL server to hold member authentication data o a dedicated ZSS, or two running in failover o multiple ZEO Clients to support end-users, preferably behind some Linux Virtual Server failover/load balancing setups That should be able to handle pretty much what you describe with ease. :) -- E PLURIBUS LINUX