content type for heavy traffic driven website

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Posted by sumoanand on October 23, 2007 at 10:52am

Hi guys,

What you feel about choosing CCK for heavy traffic driven website?

Or is it better to make our own content type?

plus point of using CCK is that it will take very less time to setup & ready to use but my main concern is that can CCK support a website which gets 1-2 million hits a day.

Your inputs will greatly help in taking this decision.

Thanks in advance,
Sumoanand

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Flexinode

Posted by mkabot68 on October 23, 2007 at 1:20pm
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I'd love to also hear people's experiences with CCK.

My production system is still on 4.7 using Flexinode and seems to perform very well. I'm going to have to convert to CCK as I upgrade to Drupal 5/6 though....

No nodes

Posted by tjholowaychuk on October 24, 2007 at 11:48pm
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Another possibility would be to not use nodes at all for large large datasets, perhaps if its something simple like news or events dont use nodes at all
vision media

Tj Holowaychuk

Vision Media - Victoria BC Web Design
Victoria British Columbia Web Design School

I'd recommend setting up a

Posted by criznach on December 7, 2007 at 1:48am
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I'd recommend setting up a dummy site with some sample data and looking at the queries with the devel module. Then you can see just how many table joins CCK is doing behind the scenes. Then look at your typical traffic profile. Will this be logged in users, or mostly anonymous users? If anonymous, drupal's cache system could kick in long before cck enters the picture.

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