[Zope] Zope v OpenACS and nonprofit application developers

[Joel Burton]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Ausum wrote:

> I'd be happy to be among the "attendants" to your touring, but as I'm not in
> DC (not even in USA), I'd be happy as well that you share your site's main
> characteristics like hits per day, data transfered, bandwith used and ZEO
> implementation, whether they exist.
> 
> I hope I'm not asking too much.   :)

Asking for my root password, now that would asking too much.

I don't offer up my site as an excellent of proof-of-scalability: our
hit count is moderate (~30,000 hits/month), and our
transfer/bandwidth/etc. would be too. (Of course, the fact that this all
runs on a machine built from bubblegum and spare parts yet still is stable
and running is pretty cheerful). I just offer my site as an example of
a medium-sized site (~600 pages), and one that I'd be happy to explain
to anyone that cared to listen.

[ nb: I've been considering opening up parts of our site backedn to the 
community, probably through a mirrored version. I don't think our design
is groundbreaking or particularly clever; however, one of the frustrations
I had in starting w/Zope was that there was no decent-sized example to
look at and play with. Of course, my concern is that exposing the
internals of my site to strangers will reveal some security holes that I
should have predicted. If anyone would be willing to do some security
auditing in advance of the opening, I'd be willing to go ahead w/this
idea. ]

If you want to proof of scalability, look at the info about zope.org,
which serves roughly one bajillion visitors per week. They have a great
chart about how they do this, how they load-balance, etc.
CBS New York is also a Zope site, and I'll bet they get more hits
than we do.

And, if you ever get to DC, the invitation is always open. :-)

-- 
Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington