Hi Cedric, You may get more extensive responses on the plone-users list, this list mainly answers questions about initial setup.
Offhand, though, my suggestions: 1) Start work on the Plone upgrade; an upgrade from 2.0.5 may be hard; 2) Take it for granted that you want to use ZEO; nearly everyone should use ZEO for production; 3) Check out "mount points" — you don't need to consolidate your ZODBs, but mount points can allow you to get them all running in the same zeo cluster; 4) Reassure yourself that the traffic counts you mentioned are nothing out of the ordinary, and should not pose a problem on a well-configured server. Steve On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Cedric Gaspoz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to this mailing-list as well as to the Zope/Plone world, even if > I made some python during the last years. > > I'm currently in charge of the redesign of the internet/intranet > infrastructure of our Business School. > > Currently, we are running all of our web services on two servers. The > first one run Apache and MySQL, serving static and PHP pages, as well as > proxying our Zope/Plone instances running on the second server. The > second server run 4 instances of Zope/Plone, each with different Plone > Sites (one instance for the main site, one for the department sites, one > for the programs site and the last one for various sites and the > intranet). Each instance has it's own zodb. > > Some stats: 2Mio hits/day, 0.5Mio pages/day and 35K visits/day. > > I'm not the guy who designed this setup 5 years ago, but as I > understand, and as I found using this setup, splitting the websites into > different instances is not scalable (no load balancing, just a > "thematic" balancing) and painful to update (as every website is a Plone > site in the root of the instances, I have to made X times the same > corrections when updating a template...). Furthermore, the hardware is > now outdated as well as the operating system and the Plone version > (2.0.5). > > So I'm looking for the best design setup given our requirements and the > actual state-of-the-art. I will have enough money to acquire 5 servers > for the new setup. They will all be connected to the SAN. > > I'm thinking of one server running ZEO and MySQL (needed for intranet > applications and PHP websites), two servers running X instances of Zope > with the websites running on all instances and 1 or two servers in front > with Apache (for both Zope/Plone and static/dynamic websites) and some > caching/load balancing software. > > Have you advices setup propositions, ... > > Thanks for your help > Cédric > > > _______________________________________________ > Setup mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup >
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