On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:50:34PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:
1. Can Zope handle a site like this (items 1-3) ?
Zope scales well. For heavy traffic, you'll want to run multiple zope servers (as ZEO clients) and cache aggressively. A site with content that changes rarely, like yours, lends itself well to this strategy. There's plenty of information on these topics available. Just today I saw this link on this list: http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/docs/zope_optimisation.html Their traffic is in the same ballpark as yours (6 hits per sec. = about 500K hits per day.)
2. Can it handle the update (items 4-5) ?
no problem. Writing to the ZODB does slow things down, but it doesn't tend to be a problem unless you've got a lot of visitors writing things to zodb frequently. What you've described sounds pretty mild.
3. Is it possible to give a rough estimate of the amount of work to bring this site under Zope's CMF (working hours) ?
No. :) With that kind of traffic, I assume you have some money to spend. Maybe give zope corp. a call and ask them more detailed questions, or look for a zope consultant who's familiar with setting up for heavy load. Then you can get a better idea of how much work you're in for. -- Paul Winkler "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"