I'd echo Dave's thoughts there. If Drupal seems "slow" then there's a good chance you were testing it on commodity / mass hosting - not really the environment it's aimed at.
No matter what system you choose, there will be an enormous amount you can do to tune any out-of-the-box CMS to get the best performance out of it. On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Dave Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Stuff was a heavily modified Wordpress. I wouldn't recommend that > approach. Pressflow is worth considering - a Drupal variant specially > tuned for high traffic. I don't think Drupal is slow, particularly for > well configured hosting (i.e. not commodity hosting). It has excellent > caching mechanisms inbuilt, which can easily be enhanced with systems > like varnish - that'll let you weather huge traffic. Don't think you'll > find a better, higher performance solution. In fact, I'm sure you won't. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > On 21/02/11 04:05, Warwick wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm looking for a CMS that we could build and maintain a site with > > similar in a great many respects to stuff.co.nz. Multiple contributors/ > > permissions, customisable advertising areas, advertiser area for > > stats, content customisable for individual users, fast, php/mysql. > > Otherwise pretty much exactly like the stuff site. > > > > Joomla and drupal seem slow to me and (like everyone) we're expecting > > good traffic over time. Any ideas? Was stuff custom-built? Does anyone > > know please? Any suggestions on a good CMS to use? > > > > Thanks very much in advance. > > Warwick > > > > -- > Dave Lane, Egressive Ltd [email protected] m +64212298147 p +6439633733 > http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is human > Only use Open Standards - w3.org, Drupal powers communities - drupal.org > Effusion Group http://effusiongroup.com Software Patents kill innovation > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
