I'm building a news site at a projected rate of about 15,000 posts per year. Each posts is very lightweight: Title, Body (a few sentences), Source (2-3 words), Categories, and that's about it. There are no comments, no trackbacks, and no images. The challenge I'm facing is strictly volume and performance; the site design is as simple as I can make it. At the moment, I'm running this site with WordPress. The render time for the front page has climbed steadily from 0.1 second to about 1.7 seconds (with just over 2,000 posts in the database). I'm looking ahead and getting concerned.

I know there are caching solutions and may look into them. I'm reluctant to do this because (a) I'm not a programmer, and (b) I'm not convinced that it's a long-term solution.

What I want is an architecture that looks like this:

• a "front page" that displays all posts from the last 30 days.
• links from the front page to each category, displaying posts from the last 30 days.
• some mechanism for moving "current" posts (i.e., < 30 days old) into monthly archives.
• links from the front page to monthly archives.
• Simple search form that will search current posts or everything in the database.

So...my questions are:

• Can Drupal manage a database with tens of thousands of posts efficiently?
• Can Drupal archive in such a way that posts older than 30 days aren't slowing down the display of current posts?
  

Hi!
I'm new here and I must say Drupal seems really good. One thing that worries me though is that spam seems to be a problem. Is automated spam only a big problem when allowing non-logged-in users to post comments?

Thanks in advance to everyone who replies to this posting!

I am the webmaster for a fire department site. I currently maintain the site by hand which is way too rudimentary and creates a problem because I am the only one that can do anything.

That being said...I want to install and begin using a CMS. As you all know, there are TONS of CMS programs out there. I saw a link to Drupal via Evolt (www.evolt.org) so clicked on it to check it out.

What I want to know from all of you is -- is Drupal right for my site? Here are the facts:

1. Design -- I have purchased a pre-made template from a company to serve as the foundation for our new web site, It is a graphical layout only with no webpages or programming included.

2. Number of authors -- Ultimately, I'd like to make about 5-10 people authors on the site. Our fire department has a number of divisions and I'd like to give each division head the ability to maintain their own section of the web site. These folks aren't the most computer literate, and definitely not web literate -- so any content modification must have an easy to use WYSIWYG interface (if possible).

3. Plugins / Options -- I'd really like to be able to integrate a photo gallery (Gallery, Coppermine), some forums (phpBB, Invision) and other content. Will Drupal allow me to do that? If so, is it easy or a burden?

As I said at the begging, I appreciate any and all answers that anyone from these forums will provide.

I really am new at this and i would like to add a forum to my site, can someone Tell me how? i have downloaded the file! What next?

I have a new project, and drupal would be perfect for it - provided I could use image functionality from 4.6.0. Unfortunately, the server still runs on php 4.3.10, and I have no control over this.

I tried to set up a test site, and it worked fine. Read a little further here on drupal org & learned that the new search module needs the newer php-version.

I could live without the search functionality. Are there other functions/modules that would have a problem with an older php-version?

thx,
Chronistin

OK, so I'm considering drupal or scoop for a personal pet project. One problem that I have is that some of the written content I wish to present is large, well over 64KB in length, which would exceed the mysql default TEXT record length. While I realize that I could just change this to another value - 256KB for example - I'd still be limited to a size of that value. What if I needed more for certain projects and less for others? I'm caught in a bind of not having enough for some and wasting space for others.