Before you start

I want to build a health focused community similar to empowher.com and supportgroups.com. Both of these sites run on Drupal, but there is very little information available about how they were able to scale up these sites.

I have used Drupal for the last 5 years, but the site I have created are more for businesses where there are no logged in users. The site I want to create will have the following functionality:

1. Detailed User Profiles
2. User Blogs
3. Groups

I know Drupal has the functionality, but can it scale for authenticated users? I have found modules for everything that I want to do, but here I have concerns about Drupal's ability to scale for authenticated users. I have found the authcache module, and I will be using pressflow. There is also a case study where a similar site migrated away from Drupal to Yii. There were drastic performance improvements. The site is realself.com and here is the case study: http://erickennedy.org/Drupal-7-Reasons-to-Switch. Also, I looked at the information for onsugar on Drupal.org, and it seems like they had to hack Drupal to death to get it to perform. I know that people often reference Drupal.org to address questions like this, but what are the details behind how Drupal.org was made to scale?

Way in the future, the site needs to be able to handle about 5000 authenticated users at any one time.

Hello,

I'm on the fence about switching my website to drupal. My current site is a wordpress but after researching I decided it would be best for me to switch CMS's for the long run. In my wordpress site the main functionality was my photo gallery (nextgen gallery plugin). I have over 3000 pictures and 100 sub galleries put into about 40 galleries or albums.

My goal is to expand my website by adding more content and social integration. I would like create a user base and more important advance my photo gallery by adding more features such as sharing the photo on facebook or emailing a photo. Some of these features I would only like registered members to have advantage of.

I've been back and fourth between CMS's and already downloaded and played with drupal 7. I would like to hear from you guys if you think drupal would be a smart move for me to make. What direction do you think I should take when creating this advanced photo gallery? What will be the best module/s used to easily upload or edit galleries with the least word possible. I loved the wordpress gallery plugin I used, it was a piece of cake to use all I had to do with select the images and I was pretty much done. I could change gallery names, remove pictures, or hide a gallery all in a few steps. Im sure drupal is capable of doing the same I just dont know how to find what im looking for.

Hi,

I'd like to create a website where A can create an offer and other registered users can bid on it (like that one for instance: http://www.freelancermap.com or something like: http://www.myhammer.co.uk ).
What would be the offer and what the bid?
Just a content type and it's comment or is there anything more sophisticated?

I'm starting a new project which needs little actual front end work (besides displaying custom content type info). The trick is that admin users need much more functionality out of the admin views. My question is withing Drupal is it possible to create your own admin panels, customize existing ones and integrate custom content type fields into them? I've developed only in Joomla and Wordpress over the past few years. This is my first Drupal project and I chose Drupal because I believe it is the best at this stuff. Please let me know if this is the case. Thank you.

I'm interested in using Drupal to create a database for storing data for my dissertation. More specifically, I'd like to create about 7-10 text fields, and then be able to input data into them and export them as an .xls or .csv file. My guess is that there are several modules out there, but I'm not sure which keywords to use since using "database" is too general.
Basically all I want to be able to do is to input my dissertation data and then periodically export it (e.g., .csv, xls). Any suggested modules? Thanks!

Hi there,

I'm new to Drupal. I have always been a Joomla user but a client has requested I build in Drupal for a project so I'm getting the questions in early..!

Can Drupal be setup so that people from different locations can view different products? Basically, they want to launch a range of products, some in USA and some in UK, but when people come to the site they want them to only be able to view the products available in their region. My instinct would be to say just buy a .com and a com.au then setup two sites as I can already foresee lots of headaches..!