Hello,
I am going to create a D6-based web site for a huge number of users ( > 800,000). We expect this site to have tens of thousands of nodes (>20,000).
What is the impact on performance of these? I could not find any info on scaling the user accounts number. Does it make absolutely no problem performance-wise to have so many user accounts?
Here is what i managed to gather until now:
- i should use the SOLR module for my search engine, because the vanilla Drupal search engine will not scale to that nodes number,
- i should use caching intensively (between web site and database, between browser and web site), because the load can be too high on the web server / on the database.
- i intend to use pressflow, to dispatch the database load on several Mysql servers.
If you have any advice, or if you know a reference site on the best practices to scale Drupal 6, please let me know :)
Best thanks