Hi Josh, Thanks so very much for your time in responding to my questions. This has been very helpful information and I find it quite encouraging. Thank you for your offer for a continued conversation as well.
Yours, Peter > From: Josh French <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:51:52 -0500 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Radiant] Stories of stability > > Hi Peter, > >> What do folks consider a "high-volume" site? If I'm looking to >> handle 3 - 5 >> million page views monthly, which I can do with a few production Rails >> servers and a non-trivial production architecture (memcache, n-tier >> architecture, etc.), do folks think Radiant will be up to the task? > > We're using Radiant on a number of mid- to high-traffic sites. I don't > have current numbers in front of me, but at last count our two largest > clients had half a million unique visitors so let's assume a > significant number of pageviews. > > All of our apps to date are given one dedicated app server and when > called for, a separate DB server (one is backed by an Oracle cluster.) > The built-in caching mechanism is adequate for all but the largest of > those. Horizontal scaling has been achievable so far without much > forethought at the application level. > >> Have you >> used other CMS?s? Where did they fall short, or where did they have >> features that you miss? > > We've used the whole gamut. End users like Radiant because, as they > tell us, the admin UI is more user-friendly and the core concepts more > grokkable than the alternatives. From a developer perspective, Radiant > is great because the core is built to be extensible. There's almost an > a la carte approach to building out a CMS in Radiant, and when someone > asks for a feature that doesn't exist yet, integration doesn't require > armed combat with the framework. > > To be fair, some of the other platforms out there may be a better fit > for portal or community sites. We've done a few Radiant sites that > integrate the notion of user accounts, and in every case we've had to > make concessions that affect performance. Just a fair warning, if > that's your scenario. > > Hope this is helpful. If you want to talk specifics, feel free to > email me. > > Josh > _______________________________________________ > 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
