Hello,
I have a question about wich processor/memory, etc.. i should use in order to run my Zope Site :
As fast as possible, as much memory as you can afford. ;-)
In fact, i have no idea about the style of server that i should buy in order to run my site properly. My site (a commercial extranet) whill be used by 300 users, and i do think that there will be 80 users concurently (simultaneous). They will just browse the Web pages and sometimes download files (MS Office).
I would recommend that you run this on some UNIX variant instead of NT/2000 if you intend to use a front-end webserver. Zope interfaces better with Apache on UNIX than IIS on Windows, allowing it to run much faster (in a multithreaded mode). It's possible to use Apache on Windows, but I'm not sure if it's as stable as the UNIX versions. And then of course, there's the "religious" argument: NT crashes, NT is slower, etc. etc. I dont buy this in lots of cases, but for Zope, its development is done almost solely on Linux. It always helps to be running on the OS that the software is developed under to avoid heretofore-unforeseen problems. (As an example, Windows 3.1 ran great on Compaq Deskpro 486's but failed miserably on other machines.. that's because it was developed almost solely on these particular machines ;-) - C