[Zope] Impact of Zope on hosting provider?

[Jim Harris]

I contacted NexusWeb yesterday and they said they would provide a setup for
Zope, but no support.  They were not specific as to the setup.  They did
mention they supported Python.  I was going to write them back to see if
they ran Zserver, or just provided the links to Apache.  They did have msql
and mysql.  The minimum plan to support Zope was the 50MB/$20 a month plan.
The other site was out of my price range ($50/mo).

I just started studying Zope yesterday to use for a project I was planning
to use Visual Basic/ADO/ASP for.  I'm testing on a Win95 machine, but plan
to move testing to a Linux box.

I decided before signing up with a hosting server to wait for Zope 2, which
I've seen a couple of references to.  What's the deal on that?  One place
promised a better integrated web server.  If Zope moves more torward being a
totally self contained server, then I don't want to mess with Apache or IIS.


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Wentworth <rhww@erols.com>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: [Zope] Impact of Zope on hosting provider?


>Right now my biggest obstacle to setting up a Zope-powered
>site could be finding a hosting provider I have confidence
>in who is willing to run Zope.  When I asked my first-choice
>provider about running Zope, they replied:
>
>> Though it's true that we can install programs that need root
>> instlall, it only so when the program is low CPU/mem use and
>> non-intrusive. Zope is neither, so to run it you would need to get
>> your own dedicated server through us.
>
>A dedicated server is not a viable option for this site at
>this point in time.  So, a few questions:
>
>1)  Are the provider's fears justified?  What sort of
>    memory footprint, CPU requirements (for a site that
>    should have fairly low traffic at first), and other
>    impact are Zope likely to have on a hosting provider?
>
>2)  Would anyone care to let me know what their experience
>    has been with the two hosting providers (NexusWeb and
>    CodeIt Computing) listed as known to host Zope-based
>    sites?  (I've been sufficiently badly burned in the past
>    by bad hosting providers that I cannot justify signing
>    up for a provider without positive recommendations or
>    multiple alternatives for backup.)
>
>Robert Wentworth
>
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