For a long time I have been bothered by a few problems concerning the infrastructure around Zope: - load balancing: Zope/ZEO is a great combination, but load balancing between several servers on a heavily-loaded site is expensive (read: commercial, hardware-based boxes) or problematic (round-robin DNS may not be available to everybody and keeping sessions is iffy). - SSL: m2crypto is a nice package but I had a few problems with it. Apache mod_ssl/mod_proxy is great, but a bit overkill from my point of view. As a result I wrote Pound: it is a load balancer (it will distribute the load between several back-end servers, while keeping track of sessions) and an SSL wrapper (it accepts HTTPS requests, decrypts them and passes them as plain HTTP). For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound The software is at version 0.1 - alpha quality. It works for me... Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and bug (what bugs ?) fixes are welcome. Pound is distributed under the GPL. Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. -- Robert Segall Apsis GmbH Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707 Tel: +41-1-920 4904