Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Danny L, from the post of Thu, 08 Jun:
inverse relationship between hype and
in the field performance.
exactly what worried me going into it.
My client is planning a site that will take on Walla, Tapuz and MSN
Israel, you see. THAT's what I meant "high profile" as in, millions of
hits a week. They are already in the publishing and online content
business, the last step is the community thing. That's where they broke
off from their traditional solutions and MS platforms and their web
programmers sold them the OSS bug which is RoR. I just wanted to know
how realistic it will be.
I hate to be such a stick in the mud but I think you will find that
even though it doesnt have the sex appeal of RoR - openacs.org has
everything else you will need for a high volume high functionality
community.
well, I'll look into that. if it can take Hebrew and hunderds of
thousands of users as a start without a flinch, it's certainly worth
mentioning to them. it's also a good idea to find out if RoR is not.
Thanks for the help guys, I'll keep researching...
Ira
OACS has been in this league for a long time. The architecture is much
simpler than MS or J2EE - none of this N-tier crap, which just
complicates everything.
At the back end, you run a PostGresQL server on very strong hardware. At
the front end, AOL Server is capable of high volume loads on a single
large multiprocessor
box but you know more than I do about server engineering, and obviously
if need be, you can run multiple web app front ends with a load balancer.
Tell your client that it is the same engine that powers AOL.com and I
think they will open up and listen. If you want, I'm up to a conference
call.
The huge attraction is the number of applications out of the box, the
scalability and the ability to start with really cheap hardware.
The OACS community are really shitty on PR but it is a great product.
We built an OACS community site for a large American Jewish organization
- and they had over 50,000 people in the community last time I looked -
and it's running on a single box single CPU Xeon, 2G RAM.
Shabat shalom
DL
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