Re: Zope WebServer not ready for production quality

[Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:39 PM 3/5/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> Zope is a great idea which is not quite there yet.
> I wanted to make it work with MySQL, OpenSSL/ModSSL
> and had a horrible time. I have fallen back to

Zope is an application server, not just a Web server.

That means something else: it's slow.

I ran a moderate traffic Web site (200,000 hits a day back then) for a few 
months using Zope and MySQL, and the experience was terrible.

Zope is a fantastic product, well worth checking out, but not meant for the 
high traffic area. Only static Web pages work there (Yahoo, ZDNet and CNet 
all work this way; any page that doesn't have a ? in the URL is static). 
The best place to use Zope is for something like the corporate intranet: 
low traffic, high inter-activity).

PS: Security is not Zope's only trump card. Everything excluding the speed is.


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Kiran Jonnalagadda
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