[Zope] is zope a solution?

[Jim Penny]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:09:19PM +0100, tonyl@vextech.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently discovered zope and have the feeling that it may be the
> solution to a pending application issue. However, I've worked through
> the tutorial and I guess I'm no wiser than before, and it didn't really
> convince me either way; possibly leading me to believe it's aimed at
> small site solutions.
> 
> Anyway, I have a project that will need to allow around 10,000 users (or
> less) to access at least a million documents. Each user is grouped into
> one of a small handful of access levels (determined by cookies). The
> documents are pre-existing PDFs, spreadsheet et al. I.e. they're all
> static.

The big question in my mind is how to handle this number of users.
Is each one to be authenticated?  If so, my gut feeling is that that
none of the standard userfolders will be much help.

> 
> A solution along the lines of a standard cgi based bespoke application
> isn't particularly taxing from a programming point of view, but clearly
> wouldn't offer what I believe to be the potential of zope with it's
> prebuilt goodies.
> 
> So, I'm wondering whether zope is up to the task (reliability and
> scalability), or whether I'm misunderstanding something.

scalability is probably not a worry.

Reliabilty is good.  To make it better, I run Jerome Alet's isdazope 
script.  It checks to make sure zope is responsive at 1 minute intervals.
If not, it restarts zope.  I seem to get about 2 restarts per week.
These usually involve write conflicts.

Jim Penny

> 
> Any observations would be most welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
> 
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