[Zope] How big a site can Zope handle?

[Andy McKay]

> How much of a difference does it make if most of those hits make a
> transaction (ie change something in the database).

It depends, Zope is not designed for lots of changes, you'll want to look at
an external RDBMs. The limiting factor is likely to be your database here.

> 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?

It depends on so many variables its almost impossible to say. Again its the
DB that will decide not Zope.

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@regebro.nu>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:20 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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