I work for FCGNetworks. We're a full service Internet, Networking, and Web Hosting provider. We've chosen open source in general and Zope in particular as our strategic direction for our web offerings. Some of the Zope sites we are hosting include:

• Discgear
• Jacques Flowers (only the store is in zope)
• Newicks (only the store is in zope)
• Sport Summit Directory

We've got a big server on which we run several Zope sites, and that has proven to be a management headache, what with different sites running different zope versions, and the need for various developement sites and occasional short term test sites. So to aleviate that somewhat, I wrote zopectl, a configurable front end to the z2 command that simplifies management of zope processes on a server. It's in the early alpha stage at this point, and I'm sure it's got lots of bugs, but it's working for us. I'd love feedback on its usefulness, as well as bug reports, suggestions, and patches. It's written in python, and should in theory work on both Windows and Unix, but I've only run it so far on FreeBSD 4.2-stable and Linux Red Hat 5.2. Let me know if it works for you on other platforms!

Another problem I've run into is the occasional desire to modify the DTML Methods of a python disk-based Product. I don't want to edit the code in the Product files, because my changes will get overwritten if I upgrade the Product. So I wrote DTMLOverride to give myself a way to do this easily. This is a proof of concept product, and if the concept proves valuable perhaps it can be re-engineered to be even more useful with community input.