Dieter Maurer wrote Paul Howell wrote at 2003-10-19 08:51 -0400: Back in August, runyaga wrote: you should never go into production without ZEO. you should never add live components / migrate a plone server / pack ZODB on a server that serves requests.
I do not follow most of these advices.
We used Zope without ZEO for several years.
Well, I know I wouldn't recommend serving any live site with real users without ZEO. Our primary site has something like 7 or 8 ZEO clients on a bunch of various sized Sun boxes, sitting behind Pythondirector. Before ZEO, we'd constantly get thwacked with strange errors and glitches - now if a machine glitches, the auto-checker (which has a very very itchy trigger finger) restarts it immediately. The director stops the downed server getting any requests til it comes back up. It now takes a pretty serious visit from Mr. Cockup to actually make the website unavailable at all. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.