[Zope-CMF] Large User Database...

Richard Shebora rlist@apogee-tech.com
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:52:11 -0400


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Hello All,

Just getting started with Zope/CMF and I love it!

I have an existing client site with 40,000+ registered users.  I want to
convert them into the CMF for the Portal capabilities.  The CMF, as is, will
handle 90% of their needs.  I can code the rest.  Their site is focused on
product technical support.  My testing thus far has proven the existing
system code will port easily with very little rewriting.

The big question is...  Can the standard CMF handle a 40k+ user base, with
over 100k+ page hits per day?  Average data transferred is about 5 gig per
day.

If not, how can I beef up the user authentication with an SQL server?  This
is a real client with a known system and user base.  The hits will and have
always come.  If Zope/CMF have not been tested at these levels, but is
expected to do well, I would like to be a test case.  I can always leave the
existing system in place as a backup if needed.  If this is small time for
Zope/CMF then Great.

Very excited to begin, so please let me know any thoughts, hints, or tricks
you may think I will need.  More than happy to, and have, RTM but would like
to have a direction to go first.

Thanks,
Richard


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