As long as people are reporting success stories, I might as well add ours.
http://bitchkittyracing.com is chugging along with about 280 pages and a couple of hundred unique visitors a day. It has a lot of subsections presented on the front page, which led to fairly intensive MySQL queries, which surprise, surprise TextDrive couldn't deal with. When we were still there, we had numerous crashes and persistent MySQL errors. eventually, I got annoyed enough to change servers and now things run great. I have a much smaller Raidant site at Textdrive now and it is fine. I think it has been running for several months without issue, but it is only a handful of pages and some photos. Something else to mention, my partner in crime had no html or programming training, but has picked up Markdown and Radius tags and is taking a very active role in maintaining the site. While some users are put off by the "technical" approach that Radiant takes, it can be easily learned. Keith Bingman Tel: +49-7731-79838380 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://keithbingman.com http://keith.bitchkittyracing.com On May 24, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Jonathan Métillon wrote: > On 5/24/07, Mohit Sindhwani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> I think that's good to hear! The site that I'm planning is going to >> start with a few technical manuals translated into HTML in perhaps 2 >> different languages. I'd say that I'm thinking of about 4 - 6 >> manuals x >> 200 pages each x 2 languages = approximately 2000 pages. So, >> naturally, >> I'm a bit worried but I think aggressive caching will solve this >> problem >> for me. >> >> But right now, I'm spending some more time of my time trying to >> figure >> out how I can automate the loading of these pages into the >> database. I >> read an earlier thread about updating the data by using ActiveRecord >> outside Rails/ Radiant and that seems to be one way. I don't >> expect the >> content to change too much too frequently, so a slightly slow update >> will work for me! The more serious issue is in converting the PDF >> manual into the HTML while still maintaining the semantic meaning >> of the >> content. >> >> After that's done, I need to work on finding a way to let people >> log in >> and add comments about the content - so, then I'll be looking out at >> other extensions. >> >> Anyhow, I'm barely learning to walk with Radiant, so things are >> still a >> bit of a way off, also because this part is out of curiosity right >> now >> and not any specific work project. It took me 45 minutes to get >> to see >> my "Hello World" page with Radiant when I started with an "empty" >> project, so there's a bit of a way to go. But anyway, the time >> was not >> wasted - I'm almost done putting the steps (simple in retrospective) >> into my blog entry so that someone else can benefit! >> >> Cheers >> Mohit. > > Hi, > > My own first Radiant website, actually for my wife's nail salon > business at home, has ten pages and a blog with fifteen posts. It also > has a contact form, XML sitemap and RSS feed. According to Google > Analytics, we received an astounding 353 unique visitors since > November 2006, which viewed 2,578 pages. > > Our dedicated dual processor server handles this impressive load quiet > efficiently. > > Radiant rulez! Thanks. > > J.M. > > Note: you can visit her at http://ruby-on-nails.com/ and put a smile > on her face by dropping a nice message using the Contact page, > preferably in French. This website degrades badly on Windows/IE. > Please use Linux/Firefox ;-) > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
