Cake can handle it... what you are really asking is wether your server can handle it without any type of load-balancing. This is a much harder question to answer since it would depend on many factors.
The reason Cake is a good framework for your situation is that it is designed to help you out if and when you need to scale up. Cake has support for many optimizing techniques. Caching on several levels, memcached support, switching of database servers at runtime (one "write db" and three "read dbs" for example) and so on. Cake also encourages you to design your application well which helps. :) An SQL table with 500'000 rows is no problem for the database engine. Just don't tell cake to load them all up at the same time :) On Aug 27, 1:23 am, DigitalDude <e.blumsten...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm wondering if it would be possible to build up a small a medium > social network, just testwise, with CakePHP. > > Let's say we would have approx 50.000 users and the could connect to > each other, could Cake and the DB handle those masses of users and > information? > > How would it be pissible to save the users relations? A > hasAndBelongsToMany-table where the relationships are stored would > take up to let's say 500.000 records in a DB table, is this possible > with only ONE database? > > Although this is quite a theoretical question here, I'd be interested > in your opinions and suggestons. > > Regards, > > DD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
