Hi
>> 2) Anyone running roller as a guest in VMWare? If so any issues?
I am running Roller and other webapps within a VM (Ubuntu or Fedora) as
a "staging" environment. Aside from the usual VMWare network setting
headaches, I have no issue at all. I don't expect any issue related
specifically to Roller while using a VM.
Allen Gilliland wrote:
Kirk Halyk wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking to use roller potentially for a corporate blog site. We
would have
say ~250 users in total. I am hoping we can stick with an open source
solution
and products from the apache foundation have a good track record.
That said I have a few questions that will help me determine if roller
is an
appropriate solution for us. Any info that anyone can provide would be
appreciated.
1) Given the user base above, what typically would I be looking at for
hardware
reqs? The install/setup docs did not provide some typical scenarios...
Hardware is a fairly personal choice for many people because it depends
a lot on what you can afford, what platforms you prefer, etc. I'm not
sure exactly what you mean by ~250 users so that would affect the
decision a little bit. If you mean you plan to have ~250 blogs then the
truth is that's not the real determining factor when it comes to
performance for the application, the real factor is how much traffic you
expect to have accessing those blogs.
You could have only 50 blogs on an installation, but if they were each
receiving millions of hits a day that would put notable stress on the
application, however you could also have 1000 blogs each getting a few
thousand hits a day and the application wouldn't even blink. So when
you are considering hardware I would think more about load in terms of
traffic (# of requests/hits, etc) rather than # of blogs or users.
That being said, we run blogs.sun.com on a pair of Sun Fire T2000
servers and host over 3300 blogs generating a little over 200K hits a
day and our servers are hardly working. So you shouldn't need a whole
lot of hardware to run your installation.
2) Anyone running roller as a guest in VMWare? If so any issues?
nope, haven't tried that.
3) How mature is Active Directory integration via the Acegi module and
are there
any docs out there on integrating AD/LDAP with roller for SSO? If
found a few
references to doing SSO with roller and apparently there are some
gotchas with
how roller and an LDAP play along:
http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=LDAP_SSP_FAQ
http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RollerAndSSO
I don't have any experience with Active Directory myself so I couldn't
really answer this, but in general Acegi does offer a very pluggable
framework for integrating with identity systems. So even if their out
of the box support for AD isn't that great it shouldn't require too much
code to write your own modules to integrate Roller with AD.
although the one document relates to the 2.3 version of roller.
yeah, that would need to be updated then.
Again if anyone has any info to share I'd really appreciate it.
I don't know what your timeline is but Roller 4.0 will hopefully be
released this summer and should offer a very solid platform for you.
-- Allen
Thx!
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