On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Ausum wrote:

I'd be happy to be among the "attendants" to your touring, but as I'm not in DC (not even in USA), I'd be happy as well that you share your site's main characteristics like hits per day, data transfered, bandwith used and ZEO implementation, whether they exist.

I hope I'm not asking too much. :)

Asking for my root password, now that would asking too much. I don't offer up my site as an excellent of proof-of-scalability: our hit count is moderate (~30,000 hits/month), and our transfer/bandwidth/etc. would be too. (Of course, the fact that this all runs on a machine built from bubblegum and spare parts yet still is stable and running is pretty cheerful). I just offer my site as an example of a medium-sized site (~600 pages), and one that I'd be happy to explain to anyone that cared to listen. [ nb: I've been considering opening up parts of our site backedn to the community, probably through a mirrored version. I don't think our design is groundbreaking or particularly clever; however, one of the frustrations I had in starting w/Zope was that there was no decent-sized example to look at and play with. Of course, my concern is that exposing the internals of my site to strangers will reveal some security holes that I should have predicted. If anyone would be willing to do some security auditing in advance of the opening, I'd be willing to go ahead w/this idea. ] If you want to proof of scalability, look at the info about zope.org, which serves roughly one bajillion visitors per week. They have a great chart about how they do this, how they load-balance, etc. CBS New York is also a Zope site, and I'll bet they get more hits than we do. And, if you ever get to DC, the invitation is always open. :-) -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington