Hi Group,
I'm about to start developing a dating site, just need some basic functionalities and it seems like it's pretty straightforward to design it with Drupal. Just wanted to hear about your experiences designing such site and had some questions. I just heard about Drupal a few days ago and installed it and now loading up some modules in it.
1) How's the performance of Drupal under heavy load? I read some article online that when caching is enabled performance increases up to three times.
2) There's an old saying that the best framework is no framework. I've experienced that myself with Zend, it was very convenient to do most of the ordinary stuff, but on the other hand it had my hands tied if I wanted to do some simple but out of ordinary stuff (specially with ZF DB). Is it the same story with Drupal?
3) I've been reading that Drupal has a pretty steep learning curve, is that for a beginner user or even experienced one? I have been programming with PHP for 5-6 years, "developed" (or should I say configured) an e-commerce site with Joomla for my dad's business and have been doing contract works here and there.
Also some of the people who have posted to this forum, their links aren't working. Are those failed projects due to lack of development time? lack of marketing? or wrong pick of a framework for the job?
Any response would be greatly appreciated.
Reza