RE: High Volume Open Source CMS Sites

Curious to know what might be defined as high volume?

We've had a single server running MySource (http://squiz.net/) getting
hammered for 350-625k hits per day, 28k dynamic web pages, 600 editors
modifying 50-250 pages/hr on the production server, but I don't know that
I'd call that a high volume site.

I'd second Ken's comments below:

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Ken Wasetis wrote:
>Don't let anyone kid you though, whether it's a Zope site, ASP, PHP, JSP,
>commercial or open source, or whatever type of technology, preparing it for
>high volumes especially if you have heavy content objects (images, Flash,
>documents, etc.) or highly dynamic content (personalized portal type views,
>for example) is difficult on any platform.  Plan for your environment to
>take weeks, not hours/days to setup and load test, etc. and plan to purchase
>more hardware than for a typical brochureware or blogger site (for load,
>failover/redundancy, etc.)

We recently upgraded our hardware from one to five servers and allowed 6
weeks from delivery before going live on the new gear. Under pressure, we
went live a week earlier than planned.

Cheers
Grant


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