[Zope] Zope Best Possible Installation

[Jaroslav Lukesh]

Instead of apache, use (not only load balancing) reverse proxy pound
(www.apsis.ch/pound). Apache is as mamut, with pound you could not define
virtual domains at two places, only in VHM of Zope. And is much safer than
apache.

Install & config of pound is easy. I have use pound as redirector for zope
and for apache.

And of course use Linux (BSD has some problems with stack size or so). I
have Mandrake 9.1 (with XFS filesystem), Zope 2.5.1, pound 1.3 and all
works wery fine without any problems with very good performance (much more
better than from windows which I used before). And of course do not use
"on-board" network interfaces (from intel - in heavy load it will lock
whole system) If you will have multiprocessor machine, you could set local
ZEO cluster (pound will help you with that to do loadbalancing).

Regards JL.

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Odesílatel: Adam Fields <fields@surgam.net>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:30:07AM +0200, Břrge Kjeldstad wrote:
> Say I wanted to use Zope and I had enough money to buy a fairly good
> server to run it on.
> Further, say I could choose the OS I wanted (Linux or Microsoft)
> And further, say I wanted Zope (some time in the future) to communicate
> with some other
> programs that I am yet not aware of (these could be an sql-database,
> some math-programs and more).
>  
> What would then be the best Zope installation I could make? Would it be
> Zope with Linux and Apache?

Likely, Zope on Linux fronted by Apache is your best bet. Zope
certainly performs better on Linux than any other OS I've run it on
(particularly Windows and Solaris). The Apache config is pretty
straightforward in most cases, and can probably wait, unless you've
got a better handle on your front-end requirements than you've
expressed here.