Before you start

Hello,

I need to build a community, user-centered website with a lot of features.
I already know I can modify the user profiles and add custom fields, which is very important for this project.
But can these custom fields be used to display (or not) content on the website ?

Let's take an example.
In the user profile, I add the custom field "Mother birth date". Now I want to display some articles ONLY to logged users whose mother's birth date is between 1950 and 1960.
Ok, it's a silly example, but it's precisely what I need to do.

Everybody including myself is constantly asking the question whether this or that will work or will be efficent using Drupal. Here is a question many don't ask, what CAN'T Drupal do. In what situations should you use a different CMS - or perhaps even write your own.

Seriously,

Blake

PS. Please give detailed examples.

I have previously used Joomla to build several sites but I can’t get this functionality to work with Joomla and its components.
I have never used Dropal but I have been told that is more powerful when it gets to user management and that kind of stuff.

My goal is to build a press release site.
On the site a company shall be able to log in and edit a profile page, add news and press releases etc.
When a user searches for a company and goes into the profile page the user shall se all information regarding that company.

Main elements of the site: picture gallery, picture preview (ajax is better here), selling pictures in different sizes and variants, payments (with local payment provider). Main accents: beautiful and clean design (nothing should distract attention from pictures), advanced searching (with categories, tags, ratings, etc.), convenience for clients. Additionaly the site will have a forum, personal messaging, articles.

I currently have written a site called www.BlakeStoltman.net and I want to know if EVERYTHING on my site as far as design, look and links is possible to be done. Including the google videos I have all over my site, and eventually MP3 Play back of Podcasts. Please click through my site, and let me know. More authors and and menu items would be added to the left frequently, under authors more lecture notes and videos would be added regularly. Also there will be articles being added at the bottom of the page regularly.

Hi,

I've been searching for some information on the hardware requirements that would be required for 300-500 sites running on Drupal.

I've had a look around and can't find much apart from posts about hosting one or two websites with large amounts of page views.

What kind of hardware would be required to host:
300-500 low traffic websites. (5k page views per month, about 200 per day)
10-20 websites with a bit more traffic (150k page views per month, 9k per day)

So around 5 million page views per month all up.