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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Yes I've deal with this kind of traffic and it was very snappy as I  
took advantage of Drupal's caching.  Drupal even allows you to plug  
alternative caching mechanisms such as the super speedy memcached but  
I find the normal Drupal page caching to be damn good:

http://buytaert.net/drupal-5-performance


On Mar 8, 2007, at 6:15 PM, S B wrote:

> Interesting.....
>
> I've been thinking of converting the main site over to something  
> like drupal
> for various reasons unrelated to my original  blogging question - I
> installed 5.1 to experiment with.
>
> The site mostly publishes articles. Although there will be about 40
> bloggers, the site needs to cope with 1000+ concurrent unregistered  
> users.
> Because of the way drupal dynamically queries the installed modules  
> and
> themes on every page render, I'm concerned about how well it will  
> scale to
> this usage level w/o a lot of customization.
>
> Any experiences with this volume ?
>
> Simon...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
> To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
> <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Wordpress-mu or MovableType ?
>
>
> Yeah the admin console is much better in 5.1 and I understand why you
> found it irritating.  Its still not beautiful but I think that has a
> lot to do with incredible granularity of control Drupal gives you.
>
> IMHO, it fits perfectly in this case.  Many bloggers with different
> needs requires a lot of fine control.  I've launched a site with far
> more bloggers than this also with the requirement for different
> templates last year and it worked very well with Drupal.  The problem
> with WP last I checked was the limited security control.  With Drupal
> you can define your own roles and an infinite number of them.
>
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
>
> > On 3/8/07, Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com> wrote:
> > > Having used WP, MT, and Drupal I'd say go with Drupal.  If you only
> > > had a couple of bloggers I'd definitely say WP but Drupal makes
> > > multiple users with varying security rights and templates so much
> > > easier.
> >
> > Has Drupal's admin console gotten better? Last time I tried it the
> > admin interface was a PitA. Also, does Drupal really fit for this use
> > case?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Cristóbal M. Palmer
> > http://claimid.com/cristobalpalmer
> > TriLUG Vice Chair
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