Before you start

Hello, I am looking to install Drupal to run a government site that has an average of 1 million pageviews a month. There are roughly 3 "spike" days that hit 100,000 pageviews in a day (27,000 visitors).

Some articles tell me that if I have such high traffic Drupal would not be the right choice because of the server demand with PHP. However, I am under the assumption that our bandwidth isn't limited. Any thoughts?

Background

First to show that I've done some research, I've read through this:

http://drupal.org/node/266511

And searched the forums for previous entries.

My employer have given me the opportunity to create an online dictionary for the Sami language. My data are a collection of audio files (one file per letter in the Sami alphabet) and a list of all the words read, their word class and translation to Norwegian. I've split those files and created the mappings between the words and the files where the words are read.

Now I need to concentrate on importing these into Drupal. The total number of words in the wordlist is 35 000 entries, give or take, and I will probably be asked to expand the translation to English, Finnish, Swedish and Russian as well.

I've also been playing with Wordnet and read through this: http://groups.drupal.org/node/8516 and http://drupal.org/node/299599 and with the Taxonomy Manager module and the Term Relation Types module the Taxonomy module can be used to create the Wordnet linkings easily.

I also found PHP code to extract info from the wordnet lex files, but I don't know if it only returns the data for one term, or if it can be used to scan the whole system and import it.

Question

When you run the install script and then it asks to type in the database name and Database username. Is Drupal 6.6 asking for the database name / username that I have given it respectively DrupDB / DrupUN as it is?

Or as usual do I have to have my cPanel Username in front of the names separated by an underscore. CPname_DrupDB / CPname_DrupUN, like so ?

Hi,
I'm completely new to Drupal and run membership websites on Wordpress Multiuser but want to set up a more flexible system now so Drupal came to my mind. I already read lots about Drupal and building a membership site with or without amember but still have some questions:

Details:
mac OS X 10.4
Drupal 6.6
developed with current MAMP configuration
cpanel 10 / AN Hosting-MidPhase
Fetch

Working locally with MAMP was a breeze after the third dump/re-install of Drupal :( so maybe this will come naturally some day :-)

These are the things that I need cleared up for starters - there may be others!

1.
Do I need to create a new db in mysql with phpmyadmin in order to import the 'mysite.sql' file into?