(From my Zope 2 experience, though it should be relevant here). Building an HA architecture for Zope is pretty much like anything else ... There's very little that's Zope specific.
Minimum: - 8 boxes: 2 web, 2 app, 2 storage, 2 load balancers - On the web boxes run Apache with mod_rewrite to get you to the Zope instance(s) running on the app layer machines - Use ZEO w/ ZRS on the storage side. There are ways without ZRS probably, look at the Disk Replication Block Device (DRBD) project. I still bother to try and get single CPU machines, because of the whole Python GIL vs. Thread issue, though newer linuxes have CPU affinity. How you setup the load-blanacing will depend on a whole lot of factors, notably what software we use, and is beyond this list (Besides I don't do that bit, our "infrastructure" guys do that for me). We've head great success with that setup (3 app servers however) ... Vastly improved perfromance and availability. J.F. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Buch Sent: February 16, 2007 4:43 PM To: zope3-users@zope.org Subject: [Zope3-Users] Infrastructure Requirements? I'm at the very beginning of what will hopefully be a successful deployment of some Zope3 apps. The big question I'm getting now from the infrastructure-minded people is what sort of hardware requirements I'll need (?) Given that I'm a bit of an Ubuntu nut, I wanted to look into a Sun server. I know that I won't need much in the way of storage, the minimum CPU and memory will do... after that I get a little lost :) If our final setup (a couple years down the line) will have something like 4-5 components all running on Zope3, must be highly available, and gracefully handle minor failures, what should I spec in terms of hardware? /me awaits flames ... Thanks in advance for patience, etc. -- Dan Buch SmartEd Services _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users