[Zope] Using Zope and Worldpilot on a large site

[Bill Anderson]

Paolo Bizzarri wrote:
> 
> Hi Zopers,
> 
> we would like to use Zope for an ISP, with more than 400.000 customers.
> Zope would be used with Worldpilot, in order to provide Webmail,
> Calendar, to do, etc.

THis demonstrates a problem or two with Worldpilot. I would defintiely _not_ use
worldpilot in that setting. Why not? Well, the sharing capability (IIRC) gives a list of
people on the system you can share with. Think about that for a moment. Four hundred
thousand people. One list. It would  be nice if it were possible for people to not appear
in the list, and for there to be groups.

THe way I would see that working is that by default, a user is not liste din the sharing
options, and has a checkbox to change it. Then, they could be seperated by groups, either
on some algorithm, or by other logical divisions (marketing, webusers, R&D).

> 
> Has anyone tried the scalability of Zope till this level ?

Well, what you are describing really isn't a test of Zope's scaleability.
, but rather workdpilots (and the machines's).  

Zope's scalability in this case is more a matter of resource usage, than a funtion of the
number of users. Thats is to say, what is the expected load of the machine/site. 400,000
users will not access all at once, will they? Zope can be scaled accross multiple
machines, through the use of ZEO, so if your load gets too high, you can move to a ZEO
solution, adding machines as neccessary.

One caveat to that is that worldpilot stores data on the filesystem, so that data would
need replicated accross the sites. Perhaps NFS or Coda could server this function.

Well, I'll stop rambling now. ;)

> 
> Many thanks in advance
> 
> Paolo
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