I'm about to put together a production machine as well and so have been thinking about the issues and cost/performance trade-offs. Comments on hidden gotchas would be particularly welcome. Have there been problems with dual processor Linuz systems and ZServer? Software: Zope 2.5.X and CMF 1.3, ZServer + Squid No Apache -- this will be a dedicated Zope system. RH 7.2 with lots of cruft removed. MySQL. Hardware: Dual AMD Athlon processors (2+ GHz) Tyan motherboard with 760 chipset? 1GB DDR memory with ECC. (2GB if budget allows) 10/100 Ethernet CDROM (for loading...) Floppy (for bootloading/rescue) 40 GB+ disk (probably IDE) SCSI Display controller (for configuration) 2U rackmount box with big fans On Tue, 28 May 2002, Matthew T. Kromer wrote:
I need to quote for a fairly big Zope site and I am trying to work out what sort of spec machine I will need for hosting.
The brief is for a minimum of 50 concurrent users, rising to a possible 2000. They will be doing a lot of searching on the site, and there will be quite a lot of e-mails sent out by Zope. The site will also use an SQL database - either mySQL or postgreSQL.
My current thinking is:
- Linux: RedHat? - Zope with ZEO in case it expands beyond one box - Apache - Squid? - 512 MB RAM - 18 GB SCSI with RAID - 1.8 GHZ processor
Am I along the right lines?