[TYPO3] Newspaper looking for a CMS

[Sancar Saran]

On Friday 03 August 2007 18:52:36 Osipov Dan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are a newspaper site, currently with 1.5 million articles, with
> hundreds added every day. Our site has separate features, like blogs,
> photo galleries, static content, etc. We get close to 20 million hits a
> month.
> Right now we are looking for a new CMS system base on top of which we
> will build custom modifications to fit our site. Can you tell us if
> Typo3 would be a good choice for our type of site? What kind of hardware
> would we need to support our traffic? Is there a better choice for a CMS
> for us (open-source or commercial)?
> I am not scared by the complexity of it, as long as it gets the job
> done.
>
> Please let us know your ideas, or if you know any helpful sites we could
> look at.
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Hi,
(first of all my typo3 knowladge not so much, I just barelly write a module 
for it)

Do not focus to Articles too much. When combining other problems, storing, 
searching and retreiving articles not so big deal as cms himself.

Me thinks best aproach was;

Find a cms which best fit to your needs, (great support for that blogs, photo 
galleries etc) then write custom module to handle your articles with current 
cms database 

For that load you need memcached support and other optimizations.

Drupal may become test candinate. They are very serious for page load 
optimizations.

For heavy loads slashcode may another option (and it was based perl)

Finding hardware requirements a bit different thing. We don't know your 
content. User profile etc.

1 million hit to cnet.com generates much different load than 1 millon hit to 
google.com

Regards

Sancar