Yay! Another notch in my plone-o-meter ;-) The online version of the Datenschleuder is now officially live! As I mentioned the other day it only took me an afternoon to create a new (minimalistic) skin. The real challenge was to fortify it for real-world access.

I'm hugely indebted to Cryx for doing all the hard work on the Squid-side of the equation. And also for never being satisfied with that something works but continuously insisting that it also be secure!

I learned a lot about ZEO and Cache-Headers and was really excited to see the huge progress in performance: the Zope server alone was able to handle a measly 4 hits per second. Adding a (somewhat weaker) machine nearby as additional ZEO-client bumped that to six-point-something (not too shabby, considering that the main machine doesn Squid, ZODB and a Zeo client and is about twice as fast...). After configuring and turning on Squid we're now at whoppin' 500 hits per second ;-)

So, click away...