Before you start

I've posted this on a couple of different cms/blog/site-solution sites.

I'd like to "beef-up" an MT site. It's sports-related, only one person posting news and rumors. Moving away from "just a blog" to wanting an interactive site with others being involved.

Main things to add:
* user registration
* user submittion of news with approval system
* easy reading of other rss feeds (with caching and good management)

We want to have three sites based on Drupal in the same server and under the same domain: interactors.coop, docs.interactors.coop and kernel.interactors.coop.

Things we want to share across sites (this has been solved):

- users and their profiles
- sessions (if you're logged in in one drupal you're logged in in the others).

Things we don't want to share (we are trying to solve this):

How important is having the option set to:
session.save_handler user

Mine's set to:
session.save_handler Files

I can't really change seeing my php.conf powers multiple sites on my host.

What are the minimum and the optimal hardware requirements? Is there a relation between visits, users, posters and the hardware? Thank you.

I'm looking at technologies to use for an online/offline music community I'm setting up. It's going to be a Creative Commons project based in Reading, England, inviting local creative types to come together and create, remix and publish their work under CC licenses.

Basically the site will need:

Hello all,

I'm quite new to the world of Drupal and I don't have any experience with it, so I hope you guys can help me out.