[Zope] Zope for ISPs

[Dave Hall]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:04:01PM +0100, Damjan wrote:
> I work for an ISP and I'm thinking to support Zope hosting... 
> 
> Is there a HOWTO for setting up Zope for use in this
> enviroment. The main issues here are security, storage quotas and
> posibly limiting other resource usage (cpu..).

You could set it up using the instance home option and have each instance
run as a particular user.  That should allow you to have several zope
instances, each "owned" by a particular user and subject to whatever
quotas/restrictions.  You could twiddle the ulimit for each instance at
startup to limit CPU/memory.  Each user should be able to install products
or drop stuff in their own import directories via FTP or whatever you
support for file uploads..

The downside is there will be many instances of zope up and running which
will chew up a bunch of RAM, and you will probably have a bit of extra
admin to do to front-end them with apache for virtual hosting..  

-- 

Dave

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