[Zope] How many hits can zope handle?

[Chris McDonough]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 23:46, Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:39:56PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > - If a T1 costs US $700 a month, you'll be spending ~$525,000.00 a 
> >   month (1160 / 1.544 * 700) retail just for the connectivity charges 
> >   to meet your peak demand. 
> 
> That's not a fair number -- scaling up to 1160Mbits doesn't mean you'll
> have 700 T1s (my God, imagine the number of routers you'd use -- one of the
> denser platforms I've seen is the Cisco 7206VXR, and even that would only
> do about 40 T1s).  You'd go for something like OC-24 and load-balance it
> over two GigE links.

Sure.  I was trying to drive home the scale of such an effort by
ballparking the cost using numbers I know and I haven't shopped around
for OC-24 links lately. ;-)

> > - The initial hardware investment (if you need it) will cost about 
> >    US$3.5 million+ (1660 servers * 2100/apiece). 
> 
> FWIW, that's not necessarily all that much (though you haven't factored in
> support costs and networking hardware costs).  I've seen infrastructure
> builds at sites that featured SIGNIFICANTLY less traffic that cost that
> much.

Well, you heard him Wayne, don't consider my quote binding. ;-)

- C