Re: [Zope] Cobalt Qube
Hello, > Inexplicably I purchased a Qube 2 to play around with but am > wondering whether I should keep or dispose of it now. I've > left the shrinkwrap on while I decide. It was *cheap*! It's a reliable little box. Plug it in and it will keep running. However. Lately it has become difficult to find RAM for it. You'll want 128MB + to do anything interesting. Zope will run on it. Performance would be approximately equivalent to a Pentium 133. More than enough to saturate a 10Mb network, let alone a T1. So it makes for a very good Apache server. However, it does not make a very good Zope server. It runs Zope well enough to support a small site or intranet. But if you got Slashdotted heavily, it might fall over. The more RAM you have the better. > Is it possible to set up Zope +/- SSL on this box without > having to purchase software modules from Cobaltnetworks? > > ( I have no Linux experience ) Well, if you have no Linux experience, and are intimidated by Linux, then don't touch it. But if you put in a bit of effort, you'll find it worth the time. The best SSL option would be buying the sw from Cobalt. You'll have to go to the command line to do it, though. Moderate SSL use will kill the Qube, however. If you want to use Zope heavily and do a lot of SSL, then get an Athlon or P3. A P3-1000 is almost 15 X faster than the Qube2 when it comes to running Zope. Luke ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Cobalt Qube
El Sat, 27 Jan 2001, escribiste: > Inexplicably I purchased a Qube 2 to play around with but am > wondering whether I should keep or dispose of it now. I've > left the shrinkwrap on while I decide. It was *cheap*! We've one of those also, and also for play around X) It's only used as internal mail server because I've find more flexiblity in use my own LiNUX boxes to do functions that Qube implements. It's a powerful machine from hardware view, but its standard software is closed (and bad) enough to forget it. It has only advantages if you have no LiNUX experience and no time to learn about because its HTTP based administration is good. > Is it possible to set up Zope +/- SSL on this box without > having to purchase software modules from Cobaltnetworks? It is possible but... > ( I have no Linux experience ) ...you'll need some LiNUX experience to install packages in other formats but not the Cobalt pkg system, specially if you need to recompile sources. Have a good one! ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] Cobalt Qube
Inexplicably I purchased a Qube 2 to play around with but am wondering whether I should keep or dispose of it now. I've left the shrinkwrap on while I decide. It was *cheap*! Is it possible to set up Zope +/- SSL on this box without having to purchase software modules from Cobaltnetworks? ( I have no Linux experience ) -- Graham Chiu ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
