[Zope] How big a site can Zope handle?

[Chris McDonough]

This is a highly subjective question and depends entirely on how the
software that does the discussion system is written and what
persistence mechanism it uses.  There is no general answer.  The
answer (and I've found this out the hard way) is to do testing of your
software before you put it in to production. Zope as a platform can
support high transaction rates.  The rest is up to you.

- C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@regebro.nu>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] How big a site can Zope handle?


> From: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com>
>
> > > I need to know that it will be able to handle the amount of
users and
> hits
> > > that this site will have to deal with. About 275,000 users to
have
> > > accounts and about 150,000 hits a day (at the moment but set to
grow
> quickly).
> >
> > Easily.
>
> How much of a difference does it make if most of those hits make a
> transaction (ie change something in the database).
>
> Hmm. That was a very loosely put question, maybe I should be more
specific
> so I'll get a better answer. :-)
>
> If I have a nice big commodity box, say a 1GHz PC, and have users
that with
> all of their hits make some kind of transaction, say, writing in a
> discussion forum, or reading in a discussion forum (and thereby
marking the
> posts as read, hence the transaction).
> How many users would such a system be able to handle? 100, 1000,
10.000,
> 100.000?
> Any experiences on this?
>
>
>
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