[Zope] What if you can use Zope on development server only?

[Anthony Thompson]

     Has anyone used Zope in a scenario where you don't have control of the 
production server?  In other words, I'm in a non-profit organization that 
rents space from a web host.  That web host doesn't have Zope installed and 
has no plans to install it.  I *might* be able to put Zope on my own 
personal Linux server, which would really make that machine like a 
development server.  Does anyone have any experience utilizing Zope in a 
scenario where the development and production servers are separate and the 
production server doesn't have Zope on it?

     I'd like to use Zope because our web site has reached the point where I 
really can't manage it myself (Ok, it reached that point over a year ago, 
but I'm finally frustrated enough to do something about it :).  I'd really 
like to be able to give other people in my organization, especially many who 
aren't ultra web savvy tech-heads, the ability to author content so I'm no 
longer a bottleneck to the site expanding regularly.  Zope looks like the 
best open source option to do this with.  I also considered Cocoon 
(http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/), but I know and love Python and Zope looks 
like it's both more mature and more well-established for this type of 
application.

     I also want to add that I *am* considering changing our web hosting 
provider, but due to other organizational changes in the non-profit it will 
have to wait at least six months (it's lower on my priority list than 
finding a replacement for our office manager, for example :).  I guess I'm 
just curious if there's a way to use Zope in my current scenario, without 
having to change to a web hosting company that already has Zope installed.

     thanks for any help anyone can provide,
     Anthony

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