[support] Drupal for University use

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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John Callahan schrieb:
> The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for 
> several web needs, such as their primary websites, for 
> colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student 
> organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites.  The idea is 
> for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller 
> groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want 
> to run their own servers/sites/databases.   I have put together a few 
> smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far.  So, I 
> making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday.   (I believe 
> they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and 
> we are testing Sakai for course management.)
> 
> 
> I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, 
> pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly 
> academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. 
> What kind of feedback did you get?   Are there are pertinent points not 
> obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth 
> mentioning? 
> 
> 
> Scalability is also an issue.  I don't know the traffic statistics but 
> there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic 
> informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small 
> research groups.   I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale 
> well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so.  However, 
> those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and 
> others receive much higher traffic than we would.

The high for drupal.org's hits/month was approaching 50 Mio last
November. You probably meant pages/month where drupal.org hat it's
maximum in May at 16.5 Mio/month.

So, this is not a problem for Drupal. It is rather a problem for
Apache/PHP, MySQL, hardware, hardware organization, etc.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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