We are in the process of creating an online community/forum system for an organic farming organization here in Maine, using Active Forums/Profile. The website  (DNN - www.mofga.org) is  about 1000 pages. The forums and community, we hope, will be in the range of a couple of thousand users.

My question is: Has anyone had any issues as far as the size of the DNN installation/database/forum/profile material as far as performance or other issues?

We are wondering if there is any merit in installing another DNN installation/database to house the profile/forum part of the project. Is there any need to do that?

How big are some of the current AF/AP projects as far as users and database size are concerned? Can we just keep buying more database space as needed and not worry about it?

Many thanks,

Will Sugg

I just recently learned of one site that has over 16,000 profiles. The only concern with Active Profile when you reach this size is that it stores images in the database. Not a big problem as long as you have the resources. We will be changing this very shortly so that you can choose to store in the database or filesystem.

I don't see any reason why you want to split the project among two installations.


Yes.


Your biggest concern should be hardware and number of concurrent users. You are going to have problems on any DNN site in most shared hosting scenarios when you have over 100 concurrent authenticated users.

Let me know if you have more specifics and I'll be glad to give you more details.

Thanks,
Will

Will Sugg,
One of our production DNN systems hosts over 400 parent portals, runs over 2.5 million pageviews a month and sees over 24 MB per sec sustained bandwidth during peak loads. We run this on a single dedicated co-located web server talking to a single dedicated SQL server. Typically we see peak avg processor performance on the web server at about 50% and lower on SQL.

I highly recommend dedicated or co-location for any "production" level DNN installations.

I should add that while only a few of these portals run AF, most of our performance issues over the years have had more to do with DNN itself than ActiveModule installations.

I should add that while only a few of these portals run AF, most of our performance issues over the years have had more to do with DNN itself than ActiveModule installations.

When is the new version that enables you to have images stored on the web server rather than database server going to be released? I need this ASAP! Please provide an actual target date and don't just say "SOON".

Thanks, J