I am sure you've heard this one before ;)
Sorry, I did search - to try and find something similar...
I am about to create a site that, I believe, will have a large amount of traffic very soon.
I guess I am just wondering if drupal is scalable. And what is going to happen if I have millions of hits a day?
I have installed Drupal 4.6.6 but was advised to install Drupal 4.7 because it's 'cool.' What I need to create is a site that functions pretty much like digg.com. I need it to be able to have votes that control the placement of the stories. I also need the stories to be categorized and tagable. People also need to be able to write comments and be able to email the story from the story page. Users also need profile pages that show what they have voted on from the most recent votes.
I'm in the process of developing a portal that will consist of a central primary site and sub-sites for each organisation using it.
So far I've been using Joomla to build portals and websites, however I'm worried that its permissions model and scalability are too limited for this project. I have built a prototype using multiple Joomla installs and a frameset to link them together, but it feels like a hack and could be a nightmare to manage. Plus there is no integration between sites.
The requirements are as follows:
Users logon to their organisation's sub-portal, so are able to participate in blog/gallery/chat/forums/community features in that portal, but each sub-portal needs to link in to the main portal for main news, articles, global forums, etc. with a shared userbase and single sign on (no need to logon multiple times when moving between sub sites).
Admin of content, forums, moderation is for local administrators in each sub-portal, but with overall super admin control of the central (main portal) which has overriding control of each sub-portal.
We would need to be able to add features to sub-portals globally, i.e. rolling out updates if necessary, new modules, themes.
There will be a directory of sub portals from the main site. Users can either login to their 'local' portal or start from the main portal and visit sub sites.