My site is far from testing the boundaries of CB/Joom at 1000 members. But I have some possible affiliations with some very big sites which are possible. I may be in a position to where I'd all the sudden add 300,000 members.

The question:

Is there a limit to member numbers where the server, the software, Joom, CB, php, mysql, apache or whatever start to GAG? Does it simply depend on how powerful your server is?

What is the biggest joom site?
What is the biggest CB site?
What is the biggest mysql based site?

Your thoughts?

mediaguru wrote:

The question:

Is there a limit to member numbers where the server, the software, Joom, CB, php, mysql, apache or whatever start to GAG? Does it simply depend on how powerful your server is?
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Hardware scales pertty well, you can introduce load balancing and make clusters of apache. Same for MySQL. So it scales as long as you can affore more servers and set up clusterign and load balancing.

The only question is if Joomla is coded to support clustering. (If this is not deliberately done, php session will be lost if the load balancer decides that it is time to change session)

What is the biggest mysql based site?

Google is running (a customized version) of mysql with estimated number of 450 000 servers.

mikko

I remember one of the remository sites, I think it was mambohut, making a big clean up when they got to 100,000 because it was too difficult to deal with from the back end. They erased everything and you had to register again if really interested.

It is not much, just a hint. Try to contact them, if I am not wrong, they will give you more info.

S.