> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Limi
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:24:16 -0700, IT Office WCSC > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think the steep costs of the Plone hosting solutions is > due to the > > huge resource demands made by the zope/plone stack on the server in > > terms of mainly memory and processing power to a lesser > extent. Making > > Plone less resource hungry - as light as a breeze - will > help in reducing the costs. > > It is also impossible because of the way Zope and Plone > works. It's not simple PHP script files doing single queries > against a relational DB. > Plone isn't constructed to be an ASP solution, and probably > never will be either. This is true, but I do note that the cost of virtual managed server hosting (where you get root on a virtual machine and a fixed amount of RAM/processor cycles) is starting to drop through the floor. These kinds of environments are very appropriate for running low-end Plone sites, provided the provider has some amount of Apache/Zope setup savvy. I think it would be very worthwhile for someone with solid packaging skills to look into whether it is feasible to package up Zope + Plone for installation via cPanel, Fantastico, Plesk, etc -- these are control panel tools that most virtual server providers are now shipping to make it easier for newbies to manage their linux servers. I think this is the wave of the future, but the Plone community may need to goose the market a little bit to get there. best, jon ----------------------------- Jon Stahl, Program Manager ONE/Northwest - Online Networking for the Environment [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.onenw.org 206.286.1235x15 skype: jonstahl y!: jondstahl Want a piece of my mind? Check out my blog at: http://blogs.onenw.org/jon _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
