-----Original Message----- From: Paul Everitt [mailto:paul@digicool.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 21:23 To: Jay, Dylan Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Zope.org performance (Was Re: [Zope] Front door on the Zope web site)
"Jay, Dylan" wrote:
and make fixing the zope.org site a top priority. Going to the MS site and seeing how slow it is gives me no faith in ASP. Same applies here. The Zope site MUST run fast if people are to trust in it no matter what the technical reason for its extremely slugish performance may be. I've given up looking at it (>1min is my limit).
Believe me, it couldn't be a higher priority. We ordered a new machine for on Friday and the stupid computer company sent it 3 day instead of next day. Sigh. It should be in today. Zope.org will then run by itself on a modestly powered machine.
Some notes on this. Zope.org is sharing a PII-350, 256Mb machine with a lot of other services, namely these mailing lists. We'll
The old site (http://www.zope.org:8080, which I presume is on the same machine) runs just fine. Therefore I think the reasoning that the blame lies on the load on the machine is fallacious. I think there's something more going on.