We host zope using mutliple installations of zope.

Yes, that's what we do for our "Professional" Zope hosting. For "FreeZope", you just get your own folder, and it lives under http://freezope.nipltd.net/yourplace. We have a standard list of products, and we don't allow people any more.

It is better this way because then the clients can control which products they have installed, they can tweak their products without bothering anyone else, they can stop and restart zope whenever they please...the basically have full control. You can't do that with more than one client using the same instance.

All the advantages you mention, plus you can let them upgrade their Zope version when they need it. We want to upgrade FreeZope to 2.2.x at the moment, and its something we need to be cautious about. There are a lot of people on FreeZope, and the move to 2.2 can break a fair number of things. Given its this painful on a free service, I'd hate to be trying to upgrade a shared server that had paying clients.

Yes it does use a fair bit of memory, but you would expect your client to pay for it accordingly.

Its also requires a fair number of configuration steps (raise the OS account, install Zope, configure Apache, configure MySQL, setup DNS, setup log analysis etc.), which takes time - although we'll probably automate some or all of this at some point. If you allow your customers shell access to the machine you also need much greater security awareness than you'd have for just a normal firewalled web server. Simon -- --------- My opinions are my own, NIP's opinions are theirs ---------- Simon J. Coles Email: simon@nipltd.com New Information Paradigms Work Phone: +44 1344 753703 http://www.nipltd.com/ Work Fax: +44 1344 753742 =============== Life is too precious to take seriously ===============