[Zope] Optimisation fun and games

[Chris Withers]

Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> 2) Two apache frontends using FastCGI to the ZEO clients. 

Is FastCGI doing you any favours here? Have you tried ProxyPassing?

>    we just serve up different domains (we have many) from each. Watch the max
>    number of connections per apache though - we've had to up it several times.

Have a look at using Squid instead of Apache, it's what ZC have done in
siutations like this...

> One very interesting thing to note though is that the webmail part of our
> service is done in PHP. It's running on the same machines as the apache
> frontends. It doesn't seem to struggle at all. Not that we'd ever dream of
> writing something as complex as ekit in PHP :)

Indeed. Do you use ZPT? If so, join the lets-optimise-ZPT campaign ;-)

cheers,

Chris