[Zope] Low Cost Linux Web cluster? How? - Performance

[Andreas Jung]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Clements" <bkc@murkworks.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 5:42
Subject: [Zope] Low Cost Linux Web cluster? How? - Performance


> I've been using Zope on various customer deployments .. all on low-end
PIII Linux
> machines.
>
> One customer is growing .. to the point that we'll need a database server
(going to
> move from Interbase to SAP DB), and one or more load balanced "web
servers"
>
> We're planning to use mod_backhand (spread) or something like it to
distribute web
> requests to ZEO clients on multiple machines..

You should think about using Squid as reverse proxy when your content is
mostly
static...this will improve your performance significantly and reduce your
costs for ZEO clients.

Andreas