[IMC-Video] high-traffic etc.

[anna]

FYI Plone has been used to date for some very high-traffic sites.

Here's some lists courtesy of google:

http://plone.org/news/share-your-enterprise-plone-deployment-story-win-an-ipod 
(finalists listed in comments)
http://plone.net/sites (erghhh... the C.I.A. is on the list!!! bloody 
GPL, anybody can use it ;) now there's an argument for proprietary software)

We use Squid for caching of EngageMedia.org. Can't tell you much more 
than that, our programmers could. Plone is nonetheless taxing on a 
server, it's true. We've made some big performance improvements on 
Plumi, and will be making one more major improvement before the next 
release (0.2).

Good thing to keep in mind though, and important area for development no 
matter which CMS is used.

ourmedia.org runs Drupal, no? fairly comparable to video.indymedia 
traffic I would have thought... could be wrong, just an assumption I am 
making.

I don't personally see the need for 2 video.indymedia projects - one for 
FTP and one for the "video-sharing experience", I think a good system 
can do both. Plumi is designed for web-viewing *and* download of videos 
for screening. Sorry I am probably just misunderstanding here - Schock 
did you suggest 2 systems? Or did you just mean we should get IVDN back 
up in order to have that content live again, before some kind of 
migration is worked out to the new database, whatever that will be? That 
seems to make sense to me.

Perhaps rather than migrating, the old database and data could remain as 
is, but have the Search function work across both databases.. at least 
until there seems to be enough resources around to attempt a migration.

Also, EngageMedia.org is not a sandbox ;) it is a working example of 
Plumi, but a real sandbox installation for Indymedia would involve 
testing out making customisations such as anonymous posting (which I 
would have thought was pretty damn easy to set up - Plone has well 
developed Roles and Workflows that would just need a bit of 
customisation.. here's a HowTo 
http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/allowing-anonymous-users-to-add-content)

Cheers
Anna