From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 23:20:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CE816A4D1 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:20:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD89643D3F for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:20:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j19NKJ5L025559; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:20:19 GMT Message-ID: <420A9BD5.1090205@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:25:09 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay References: <20050208230206.GA88486@keyslapper.net> <20050209171513.GA18088@keyslapper.net> <86sm45jvce.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> <20050209215600.GF18088@keyslapper.net> <20050209225523.GD47217@mail.meangrape.com> In-Reply-To: <20050209225523.GD47217@mail.meangrape.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:20:33 -0000 Jay wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:56:01PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > >>On 02/09/05 04:07 PM, Chris Shenton sat at the `puter and typed: >> >>>Louis LeBlanc writes: >> >>Hmm. Plone didn't exactly rise to the top at opensourcecms.org, but >>since you saw fit to plug it, I'll give it a chance. > > Plone is very, very nice. > > >>I'm not familiar with Zope at all. Isn't it an Apache *alternative*? > > Yes and no. Zope serves up all of its content. It's quite common to > run Apache in front of it, though -- that way you can use all of your > Apache modules. > > Since a Zope site is totally dynamic, it usually makes sense to run some > kind of caching server in front of it. Some people use Apache because > that's what they're familiar with/have installed/etc, etc. If you're > not going to use any of Apache's features, squid is generally better for > that. > > If you're interested, send me an email off-list, and I'll make you an > account on my Plone site so you can dink around and see what it's like. > I am in the process of looking at zope for a base to a couple of websites I will be creating. One of the sites will be providing services to around 500+ users. Being quite unfamiliar of the development side of zope (I have used plone as a user but that is about it) I was wondering if anyone had any ideas what is the best way to go about hosting something like that. Is virtual/co-/dedicated hosting the way to go? Is one server enough? I have looked into a package called zeo as well that provides a horizontally scalable solution for zope so I am hoping to be able to add servers as required should the load increase. Any help would be much appreciated. :) Chris