Production Servers

Our initial production server is a dual Xeon CPU machine running SuSE 10. Plone's architecture allows it to deliver web pages quickly using several cacheing techniques. Our current setup uses a ZEO server, four ZEO clients, the Pound load balancer, Squid, and finally the Apache web server. This setup delivers 350+ pages per second to anonymous public users.

SSL encryption is used for all login pages and requests, so that no usernames and passwords are exchanged unencrypted between our server and your browser.

Logins used on our production server authenticate using our email LDAP servers. This gives all our students, faculty, and staff the convenience of logging in using their email username and password.

A Plone site may reside on this production server depending on what sort of information it stores, what custom Plone modules or products it needs, and how much traffic it is likely to receive. If a Plone site uses or stores any confidential information it cannot reside on this shared production server (see the Security document for more information).

Backups of all production Plone sites are performed once daily.