[Zope] Performance and Server Requirements

[Oliver Bleutgen]

> OK, so a site that's only in the tens of thousands of hits per day range
> should be no sweat.  What about the Linux server to put under it?  Am I
> wrong to think that a single processor and 256meg should do the trick?

> Chris

Hi Chris,

I think it's impossible to give a general recommendation.
There are some factors which need to be taken into
account and which are very project specific.

- ten thousand hits a day are in most cases not distributed
uniformly across the day. For instance we have a site which
gets hit like hell when people come into their offices in the morning,

- Response time matters. We are working on a zope project where
all menus are built dynamically by iterating through zclasses
in a folder. Everything is quite modular.
When benchmarking this on a relativly slow (PII-350 + 64mb) Server
I got 4 hits a second, *but* max. answer times between 1 and 2 
seconds.

- There's the possibility of using a reverse proxy. I configured
apaches mod proxy with the above mentioned setup and
got 500 hits/second on the same hardware.
But this kind of caching my not always be feasible.

cheers,
oliver