[Zope] [HELP] Choice of a NT server

[D. Rick Anderson]

We've used the Compaq ML-370 with Dual P3-1.13GHz cpus and 1GB of RAM 
for all of our Zope servers and they work awesome. I would look for 
something similar. As much as I hate to admit it, I've had better 
experiences with Intel cpus where servers are concerned.

As for Zope on different platforms, we're running 3 Zope servers on RH 
7.x and 1 on Windows 2000 Server and we have more problems with the 2000 
box than the other 3 combined (it needs to be rebooted frequently). My 
only argument for 2000 is that data access is REALLY easy using ODBC 
drivers (that's the only reason that we have the 2000, we have a series 
of older database servers that we couldn't connect to with linux but had 
ODBC drivers for).

Rick


Chris McDonough wrote:

>>Hello,
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>>I have a question about wich processor/memory, etc.. i should use
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>in order
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>>to run my Zope Site :
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>As fast as possible, as much memory as you can afford. ;-)
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>>In fact, i have no idea about the style of server that i should
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>buy in
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>>order to run my site properly. My site (a commercial extranet)
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>whill be
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>>used by 300 users, and i do think that there will be 80 users
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>concurently
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>>(simultaneous). They will just browse the Web pages and sometimes
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>download
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>>files (MS Office).
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>I would recommend that you run this on some UNIX variant instead of
>NT/2000 if you intend to use a front-end webserver.  Zope interfaces
>better with Apache on UNIX than IIS on Windows, allowing it to run
>much faster (in a multithreaded mode).  It's possible to use Apache
>on Windows, but I'm not sure if it's as stable as the UNIX versions.
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>And then of course, there's the "religious" argument: NT crashes, NT
>is slower, etc. etc. I dont buy this in lots of cases, but for Zope,
>its development is done almost solely on Linux.  It always helps to
>be running on the OS that the software is developed under to avoid
>heretofore-unforeseen problems.  (As an example, Windows 3.1 ran
>great on Compaq Deskpro 486's but failed miserably on other
>machines.. that's because it was developed almost solely on these
>particular machines ;-)
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>- C
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