I'm working on a project to build a public website using Zope, and am in a position where I need to spec and order the hardware before beginning the work on the site. We're going to plan for 500,000 hits/day as a benchmark. I'm leaning towards a ZEO configuration, with a dedicated ZEO Storage Server and 2 ZEO Client machines, with a load-balancer up front. This way, the worst case is the performance isn't up to par, and I can just toss another machine at it as a ZEO Client. Here's the question: is there any benefit to having dual-processor machines on any of these? I think we can afford 3 of them, if necessary, but is it even needed? I was planning on going with Dual-Xeon 2.8 GHz boxes running Linux. I'd rather not run more than one instance of Zope on the clients, btw. Also, I'm having trouble finding info on getting SSL working in a ZEO setup. Are there any docs out there I should read? much thanks, bart