I currently am managing a website with circa 5000 visitors daily. Very simple with .php files. Nothing fancy. On a shared server.
What do you think a drupal version of same website with a bit more tools (taxonomy, login, etc) will require serverwise? Will i need a dedicated server? What is your experience with drupal and thousands of daily visitors (not so much sure, but it will definitely impact my shared server!).
I'm looking for an oSS to can help me setup a web community portal (member profiles, bulletin boards, blog, event calendars, RSS feeds, etc) that are all tied to one. For instance, instead of downloading Wordpress for blog and phpBB for bulletin board separately, I want something that's integrated together.
I am starting to build a new personal website. I've been running a personal blog for several years on Wordpress, but I want this site to have a little more going on, so I thought I'd use Drupal for it.
I see the new site having 4 pieces that will essentially be separate sections: a blog, a photoblog, the main page (and a few below), and an elaborate "about" page (with resume and some other features). While I'd like there to be a unified look, I'd also like each to have its own theme and feel.
This is a first post to Drupal fora, and if the answers I get are positive it'll not be the last ;-). I've designed, and manage, a growing site at www.eurocall-languages.org, which is nearly all HTML with a few PHP pages poking their heads out timidly. It's getting to be a pain to manage as it grows, so I'd like to put it into a CMS for a number of reasons including:
* content updating by authors (rather than them having so shove everything through me)
* content updating and site management by HTTPS, especially for times when I'm away from my development machines (eg at conferences)
* automatic deprecation of expired documents