[Zope] Zope's scalability across multiple web servers

[Jason Spisak]

J. Atwood:

> I am using PostGreSQL 6.5.3 which I am really enjoying. 
That's is what I was going to use, until I decided to put everything in the
ZODB.

>It is very stable,
> pretty fast, has tons of features and above all, open source (7.0 which is
> to come out in a month has a slew more). Most of the data for the site is
> coming from the database (ZODB = 1.1 MB) and by playing with Zope's SQL
> Method caching I am really able to customize each and every SQL statement as
> to how much to cache and for how long.

I may plug you for tip when the time comes. ;0

> This really improves performance as
> cached material is said to be about 10x faster (not my tests).
> 
> I have done some testing and on my server (RH 6.1, 300Mhz, 256 RAM) I think
> I can handle roughly 1,000,000 a day so should be ok for a bit. :)

Run those TV commercials and bring 'em on!
 
> I have read everything I can get my hands on about ZEO but am still unclear
> about a few details like setup, management and the nuts and bolts of >having
> one ZODB over many servers.

I don't know either.  I've jsut read their pdf.  Have you read that?

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