[Zope] Setting up a dedicated Zope box

[Toby Dickenson]

On Friday 22 March 2002 5:16 pm, Tom Nixon wrote:
>> >> Finally, what would be considered a minimum spec for such a server?
>>
>> Unless your budget is tiny I recommend using two servers, even if they
>> have to be lower spec. This gives higher availability. Its also makes
>> for more relaxed management if you know you are always free to bring
>> one server down for maintenance.
>
>Do you mean 2 servers using ZEO, or a separate server for the database?

The ZEO server is a shockingly lightweight process, so there are no 
*performance* reasons to put it on its own box. If the requirements are for 
very high availability then it needs to go on a box with redundant hardware 
(power suppplies, NIC, RAID, etc) and running no other software.

(In future it will be possible to have replicated zeo servers. At that point 
you could build a highly available zeo cluster solely from dirt cheap 
hardware. Mmmmmmmm)

I suggest you dont run ZEO if you dont need to. If your content is mostly 
static then each server can use a local filestorage, using rsync to replicate 
one way. This makes for greater redundancy.