[Zope] How many hits can zope handle?

[Roy S. Rapoport]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:39:56PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> - If a T1 costs US $700 a month, you'll be spending ~$525,000.00 a 
>   month (1160 / 1.544 * 700) retail just for the connectivity charges 
>   to meet your peak demand. 

That's not a fair number -- scaling up to 1160Mbits doesn't mean you'll
have 700 T1s (my God, imagine the number of routers you'd use -- one of the
denser platforms I've seen is the Cisco 7206VXR, and even that would only
do about 40 T1s).  You'd go for something like OC-24 and load-balance it
over two GigE links.

> - The initial hardware investment (if you need it) will cost about 
>    US$3.5 million+ (1660 servers * 2100/apiece). 

FWIW, that's not necessarily all that much (though you haven't factored in
support costs and networking hardware costs).  I've seen infrastructure
builds at sites that featured SIGNIFICANTLY less traffic that cost that
much.

-roy