General discussion

I've got a client who wants a website up very quickly. They initially wanted everything done from scratch to avoid scalability issues down the road. But on the other hand, they only have enough money for a single developer, me. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but it would take me at least a few weeks to lay out a basic framework for a site and design/build up a basic starting point (DB design, DB abstraction interface, template infrastructure, etc) before I could even begin considering even a basic user login screen. It would be a long slow road, and I'm not sure I could keep up with the client's expectations. So instead of rushing in to some half-baked design, I've been researching CMS/frameworks in PHP. I'd nearly given up all hope until someone suggested I take a deeper look at Drupal. After a day of playing with the installation, I'm pretty impressed. It's clean, seems well designed. But before I can really make my case for Drupal complete, I need to address two more issues.

1. I don't have any actual numbers, but based on the fact that sites like Mozilla.org can run successfully on Drupal, I know it can support at least a "medium-traffic" site (whatever that means). My basic argument is that until we are bigger than the largest Drupal site, we shouldn't have any scalability issues that can't be addressed with hardware. Nonetheless, I'd like to point the client to some large/popular/well-known sites that use Drupal. The best examples I've found so far are:
   

I tried searching the forums, but couldn't find anything that quite fit.

Background:
I am running Drupal 4.6.2 (just upgraded from 4.5.1 yesterday) on a Linux 2.4.30 system (hosted by IXWebhosting.com). It's using Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) PHP/4.3.11 mod_ssl/2.8.18 OpenSSL/0.9.6b FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_throttle/3.1.2 with PHP 4.3.11. My account on the server is keithmcd with a group of keithmcd.

Problem:
Although this problem mainly occurs when I'm using the image module, it also occurs when using a core site feature - such as avatar uploading. All uploaded files are set with incorrect permissions. As I do not have shell access to the server, I cannot fix this myself and must request help from my hosting company every time this happens. With Drupal 4.5, all files were set with owner and group of httpd (httpd:httpd) but I could still see the files at least. However, with Drupal 4.6.2, the files are accessible to the outside world, but I cannot see them on the server when I ftp into it.

Question:
Is there an option somewhere - either in the site code itself, or buried on some configuration page - that I can change so that all uploaded files are set to keithmcd:keithmcd with the correct read/write permissions? I do consider myself knowledgeable with Linux, but no-where near good enough to fully comprehend all the permissions variances with Linux (I only know all the 777, etc because WS_FTP Pro lets me type that number in).

Thanks and let me know if anything needs to be clarified.

When I first "met" drupal and tried to grasp it's concept, my first impression of "books" was that they are much like a wiki, only in a way that could be easily understood by non-techies. Since most of my visitors are non-techies, I liked the idea. After installing and playing around with drupal, I was surprised that there is no option to grant editing rights for all book pages to all registered users.

Since I wanted it to work that way, I just changed it - in a rather rough way - in my own installation and forgot all about it. :)

When will the new password reset function be added into core.
You have it here on Drupal's site.. just curious when it is scheduled to become mainstream.

I love that it does not auto change a password but rather sends a link with a one time key to login and reset password.

Hi,
How can I replace the default menu pages? For example, I may want to replace http://mysite/user/register with my own implementation. When I implementing hook_menu, it seems that I can not register the user/register path because it is registered by other module already.

Thanks,
Lirong

It seems in many of my installations the site works fine for a period of time -- usually 2 months -- and then begins to have performance problems. My question is not why. That is obviously too broad and pointless to ask as there could be any number of possible reasons.

And that is my point or question. What are those possible reasons??. All of those reasons. Am I the only one who has ever experienced this? Okay so I'm doing something wrong. What? To vague a question? Why?