[NGO] Re: what NGOs need in a website [checklist]

[Jon Stahl]

> From: ngo-bounces at lists.plone.org 
> [mailto:ngo-bounces at lists.plone.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Limi

> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:24:16 -0700, IT Office WCSC 
> <itoffice at wcsc.info> wrote:
> 
> > I think the steep costs of the Plone hosting solutions is 
> due to the 
> > huge resource demands made by the zope/plone stack on the server in 
> > terms of mainly memory and processing power to a lesser 
> extent. Making 
> > Plone less resource hungry - as light as a breeze - will 
> help in reducing the costs.
> 
> It is also impossible because of the way Zope and Plone 
> works. It's not simple PHP script files doing single queries 
> against a relational DB.  
> Plone isn't constructed to be an ASP solution, and probably 
> never will be either.

This is true, but I do note that the cost of virtual managed server
hosting (where you get root on a virtual machine and a fixed amount of
RAM/processor cycles) is starting to drop through the floor.  These
kinds of environments are very appropriate for running low-end Plone
sites, provided the provider has some amount of Apache/Zope setup savvy.


I think it would be very worthwhile for someone with solid packaging
skills to look into whether it is feasible to package up Zope + Plone
for installation via cPanel, Fantastico, Plesk, etc -- these are control
panel tools that most virtual server providers are now shipping to make
it easier for newbies to manage their linux servers.

I think this is the wave of the future, but the Plone community may need
to goose the market a little bit to get there.

best,
jon
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