Hey folks,
I'm new to Swiki and have only played with the Mac implementation
briefly (separate comments on that). But a non-profit standard
organization I chair is looking into using Swiki for a lot of our
public information, probably running on Linux. We love the access
controls to prevent change access on select pages, and Swiki's
formatting controls seem better than most.
What we remain a little concerned about because we have no experience
with it are the reliability, stability, portability, and performance
issues. I'm hoping people here can set my mind at ease about some of
these issues.
* How many pages can an Swiki hold and keep working well?
* Has anyone seen significant performance problems at a certain
number of simultaneous users? Has serious performance testing been
done?
* How stable is the Linux version of the software? I just saw the
concerns about the NT/2000 version. Obviously, since this would be a
production server for what we hope will become an increasingly
high-profile standard, uptime is important.
* How are individual pages stored, should we need to export
information to use in a different system at some point in the future?
(I see there's a Render function, though I don't have a sense of why
one would use that, since the documentation is, shall we say, sparse.)
* Similarly, is there any concern with corruption of pages, if
they're not just stored as text files?
* Is it possible to delete an individual page, assuming that it's
something that simply has no future relevance?
* Is there any problem with standard backup approaches, or does Swiki
have any additional backup capabilities?
Thanks for any experience you can provide!
cheers... -Adam
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