Do you really want "static" html files? Or do you mean caching? I think serving static content out of memory is _really_ the fastest way, none the less.
Drupal is known for being scaled to acommodate a lot of traffic (you can google about that yourself). Drupal has awesome friendly URL features, out-of-the-box caching, and every other feature you've mentioned. I'm not sure why you want to see a demo installation of any one CMS, (just to poke around the interfaces?) - you need to know a CMS in order to know what you're looking at, otherwise you're left to simply be impressed with nice themes (which, I'm sure is not how you want to decide). I've asked one of the more involved Drupal developers to come pitch in here :) Jonathan Zacsh http://jzaksh.com/ 732.660.8184 -----Original Message----- From: Christian Lohmaier <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 08:38:56 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing Hi *, as the question "what cms to choose" now comes up more often, I think it's best to just setup some demo-sites to compare them. I'm currently evaluating silverstripe, and so far it seems to be good enogh: Major points any CMS must fulfill: * Create static pages In the past, on the OpenOffice.org website with SourceCast (now named CEE) we often had the problem of the site going down because of the amount of requests. A pure php driven site, even with php-accelerators very likely will put too much load on the server. * User-Firendly URLs People want to be able to guess what a link is about. Pointing someone to http:://example.com/<randomnumber> is bad, better point to http://example.com/user-faq Also important for search-engines and the like * Support for Translations Key pages should be available in multiple languages, the CMS should support managing those (without having the editor keep the list of translations in sync, wihout the editor needing to update all translations with a new link) * Support for subsites As LO is a huge project, with lots of different areas where work is being done, the CMS should support multiple subsites. (like for example on OOo the various native-lang projects, the marketing, distribution, etc. projects, that have different focus and needs) * sufficiently sophisticated user-rights system Not every user should have the possibility to change every aspect on the site. Some parts are reserved to be edited by admins, some areas are free to be messed-around by community members. Specifically, it should support a review/approval workflow. * user friendly editor Probably not so much of a concern, as many will use the same tinyMCE, but nevertheless an important topic Those are the basic requirements that come to my mind, now to stuff it doesn't need to provide: * an own wiki Specialized wiki-software is always superior * own Forum See wiki * random other addition (blog, whatever) see wiki / we have dedicated planet The only drawback of silverstripe I found sofar is user account creation/validation. By default the email is not verified by sending a probe, thus a user can create an account with an email-address that he/she doesn't own. Only burden is a captcha. This puts a little burden on the administrators to double check I can provide access to a staging installation soon, to check things out. I'd be happy if someone else could do this for drupal or whatever other CMS you think should be in the closer choice. The static sites requirements is considered a hard requirement, no "but it is fast without" arguments please. To quickly get an idea how your site performs, use the apache benchmark utility, request a site 1000 times with concurrency of 5. That can be used as a measure to compare cached/static vs dynamic performance. ciao Christian -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to [email protected] List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. N§²æìr¸zǧu©Þrzf¢Ú0y»"µï®Ë±Êâmébn·¨}øzà.+-j·!÷¬j·½¨¥i¹^jØm¶ÿà %ºÞ¡÷âqê+ùb²Û?Áæì׿YfzËë2¢ë Ûh¶¬+-Â)emênnX&«r¯yÖ§uƧ[y×¥z×
