[Zope] Performance Hit

[beno]

Thanks. I am of the opinion that adding a Squid server for this non-dynamic 
content would solve almost all problems. Your thoughts?
beno

At 09:18 AM 9/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Here our MySQL database is on a separate server than our Apache and Zope 
>servers
>we serve 100's of thousands of requests per day, if we were to serve parts 
>of our content
>from MySQL there would definitely be a noticeable hit to our request times.
>
>Now if we are just talking about a 10 page website that serves 100 or so 
>requests per day
>you probably wouldn't notice at all. It is all dependent on the amount of 
>data, and the
>amount of traffic, I went with the worst case point of view, large amounts 
>of content
>served from a remote database, with high traffic, as opposed to serving 
>static content
>from the webserver.
>
>We have about 60 sites that use our Zope server, two fairly large sites, 
>and we experience
>slow response times just serving from the ZODB. When one of the agencies puts
>out a document for the public and it gets hit hard, we notice it. Granted 
>it doesn't DoS
>us, and we are able to work normally, there is a definite slow down in 
>network traffic.
>
>
>Chris Withers wrote:
>
>>Jason Bush wrote:
>>
>>>There would be performance issues indeed, and it would be come more 
>>>pronounced
>>>with greater amounts of traffic to you website.
>>
>>
>>What information are you basing this on?
>>
>>Chris
>
>--
>"When two men in business always agree, one of them is 
>unneccessary."                                                 --William 
>Wrigley Jr.
>Jason Bush  |  (402) 471-6517  |  jason at nol.org  |  http://www.nol.org
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Zope maillist  -  Zope at zope.org
>http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope
>**   No cross posts or HTML encoding!  **
>(Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce
>http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )