John wrote:

Actually, I guess the real intent of the question was how many pages/sec can a Medusa server handle versus Apache? At what point do you

It's still a complicated question. :^) Medusa claims to do more requests than Apache. ZServer (meaning Medusa) should do more requests going directly to it rather than sitting behind Apache.

decide to cut over? I ask this out of ignorance.I have never worked with a high volume site. I just found it somewhat odd that zope runs off of Apache as the entrance to the site.

For a number or reasons. For the first few months (during July and August) we ran the new Zope.org site straight to ZServer. However, our opinion is that most people will prefer the comfort of sitting behind their trusted webserver and letting it do logging, SSL, etc. Thus we'd like to try and run in the configuration most people use. Perhaps we'll change our mind and move back to "straight to ZServer", but it's proving to be a good test case for real world scenarios. --Paul