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[Stephen Burge]

I'm not able to see that in practice unfortunately.

Do a quick scan of that template using Anthony's performance grader:
http://www.joomlaperformance.com/component/option,com_performance/Itemid,52/

Use their demo URL: http://demo.yootheme.com/index.php?show=jul09/

Much slower and heavier than they claim.

Steve





Donna Marie Vincent wrote:
> Did you see the new template from Yootheme, built on their Warp 
> framework?  Supposed to be superfast yet still has all the bells and 
> whistles: http://yootheme.com/blog/item/root/faster-loading-with-warp5
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>
> *To:* NYPHP SIG: Joomla <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 20, 2009 4:41:01 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [joomla] Performance question
>
> Even a shared host should be able to pump out 50k views in a month.
> However if you really worry about scale, a good bet is to get a
> dedicated webserver, and a dedicated mysql server. Then trick out your
> webserver to have a php cache (like xcache, which is my favorite) and
> also a cache (memcache is my favorite for this).
>
> Those things should provide a Joomla site that can scale well beyond
> what you are talking about. Keep in mind that Joomla can only go as
> fast as the stuff you make it do - and there are plenty of 3rd party
> extensions (templates are the biggest source of pain IMHO) that will
> severely limit your ability to scale.
>
> Just setup a datacenter with three webservers and three database
> servers, expecting to exceed 40 million page views in the first day.
>
> -- Mitch
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Mark Holberg<info at waynorth.com 
> <mailto:info at waynorth.com>> wrote:
> > Will Joomla perform adequately as a publishing platform for a news 
> site that
> > has the potential to reach at least 50,000 views a month. I would 
> appreciate
> > having any insight into resolving potential issues?
> >
> > Here's what I consider the four features that have to be robust:
> >
> > I realize these point to extensions, but can a system that meets the 
> feature
> > requirements handle the load?
> >
> > * Stories – Current content, plus archive content quickly accessible
> > * Calendering – flexible, attractive, fast
> > * Search – responsive, intelligent, relevant
> > * Ad serving – full featured, responsive, reliable
> >
> > I also wonder whether the answer ultimately rests on how well the server
> > performs.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> > --
> > Mark Holberg
> > WayNorth Web
> > Web Design & Hosting
> > Watertown, NY 13601
> > 315-486-0615
> > http://www.WayNorth.com
> >
> >
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