stuff currently runs on a custom written perl codebase AFAIK. speed of an application nowadays heavily depends on the underlying architecture. it is possible to speed up the slowest of dogs to run pretty acceptable. if you go for speed, php is most likely not your language of choice but it really depends on what you are after. off the shelf vs custom development - with the custom solution always being the faster one in the end but the first one almost certainly being the faster one to market.
facebook got out of their resource/performance problem with php by developing HipHop which compiles php down to c++ and then runs that in a custom web server. caching layers are important as well, fast databases and DB tuning is an important aspect. once you have a heavily loaded website you will see the parts that are falling off and you will have lots of fun tuning them. this will be the same with every solution, some make it easier than others but you will be there in the end. picking a product off the shelf for high performance does not work, there is more to it and always will :-). on a side note, i am currently working on a decent hosting platform for magento sites that outgrow the standard hosting and need more performance - i am sure there are similar issues with loaded drupal/joomla/... sites as well and i am happy to share how my stuff works. also, i'll open up that platform for developers somewhen this year. hope this helps a bit, and as always, feel free to mail me :-) cheers lenz On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Warwick <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks very much Dave and Kent > > So my experience with Drupal may have put me off before. Good to know > and I appreciate your comments. > > And thanks Berend too, I wasn't aware Google ran on Drupal. > > That's +3 for Drupal-based, anyone else with some thoughts please? > > Thanks again all. > > Cheers > Warwick > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- twitter: @norbu09 current project: iWantMyName.com -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
