What does the server setup for the plone.org website look like?
What kind of hardware is running plone.org, and what versions of the software do you run?
- Specifications
- plone.org is a powered by a Dual 3 GHz XEON with 4GB of RAM. It is running a ZODB 3.1 ZEO server and has 1 ZEO Client running. It is running the Nginx webserver, proxied by a Varnish cache.
- Operating System
- plone.org is running Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) on a 2.6 kernel
- Python
- Running Python 2.4.5
- Zope
- 2.10.7 with related ZODB and ZEO, CMF 2.1.1
- Plone
- Running Plone 3.2
- Products
- Everything from the PloneOrg buildout
- Disks
- It has SCSI disks in a hardware RAID5 setup, and currently serves the ~8500 users on plone.org. The database is about 1 GB in size, and is backed up daily.
- Memory
- 4 GB total.
- Traffic
- During the month of May 2007, we had approx. 20 million hits.
- Bandwidth
- Our monthly bandwidth usage is about 200 GB.
- Stats
- Interested in the traffic statistics? Check out http://stats.plone.org/
- System administration
- plone.org is administered by the Plone infrastructure team.The Plone admins can be reached on the Plone Admins list.
About plone.org's new theme
In March 2009, plone.org was upgraded with a shiny new visual theme. It's drawing rave reviews, and generating lots of questions.
Who designed the new plone.org theme?
The original design was done by Iain Claridge of Netsight. Alexander Limi and other Plone community members did lots of additional tweaking as the site went from Photoshop comp to production.
Can I download the theme for use on my site?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: While all of the code behind the theme is freely available, it's not currently packaged up as an easily installable standard Plone theme.
Why isn't new plone.org theme available standard Plone theme product?
The new plone.org theme is (among other things), one of our first demanding high-volume tests of Deliverance, a revolutionary new approach to Plone theming that will likely ship as part of Plone 4. Deliverance provides a vastly simpler approach to theming Plone (and other web apps!), but it's still "in the lab" and is not yet an officially-supported approach to theming. All in good time!
Will the new plone.org theme become the default theme for Plone in a future release?
Definitely not in the Plone 3.x series. No conversation has yet begun about the default theme for Plone 4. Adapting the plone.org theme is one of several possibilities.