[Zope] Zope hosting

[Tony McDonald]

At 12:22 pm +0200 30/3/00, Jochen Haeberle wrote:
>At 19:06 Uhr -0500 29.03.2000, Luke Tymowski wrote:
>>If you want a fast, cheap, Zope box look at the G3-450s. Even an iMac. Or a
>>Celeron. But not the Cobalt lineup.
>
>Really? What would you put on the Macs? Linux, OS X or MacOS?

Now - LinuxPPC (my Mac at home that gets 900 pystones is usable for 
me to do dev work on).
Later - choose from OS-X or LinuxPPC
You can't (easily) use MacOS because Zope has some unix-centric parts 
that don't translate well to the Mac.

>What makes the Celeron superior to the Cobalt-setup in your opinion?

The Pystone scores are higher
Celeron-400a
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 1.78
This machine benchmarks at 5588.87 pystones/second
vs
Qube2
Pystone(1.1) time for 10000 passes = 8.81
This machine benchmarks at 1135.07 pystones/second

>I thought the Cobalts where rahter high-speed (full) pentiums and
>that the Celeron is not well suited for server use??

Sorry, not qualified to answer that bit. All I do know is that we 
have a 700MHz PIII here that gets 10,500 Pystones against our 
Enterprise 450 with ... 2700. As the maintenance on the Sun kit is 
roughly the same price as the PIII, you could say I'm not overly 
impressed with the Sun...
Tone
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