[Zope] Hardware requirements: cpu or memory?

[Max M]

Wouter Vanden Hove wrote:

 > Hi,
 >
 > I have Zope and Plone installed on a Pentium 266Mh with 64 MB Memory.
 > And the site is running slow.
 >
 > What is the most simple (and cheapest) way to increase its speeds?
 > A new CPU, or could buying some more memory (like 256Mb) be enough?


I have a server with multiple low volume sites running perfectly on a 
133 MHz Pentium.

256 MB of memory does the trick.

The only thing that is a little slow is restarting. But that is 
generally not a problem as I tend to restart production server rather 
infrequently.

Btw. It also runs Apache, IIS and a mail server... It isn't that long 
time ago that A 133 MHz machine was top of the line. Even then it was 
running Zope.


regards Max M