How many members...

Hi there guys,

I would like to know how many members Dolphin 7 is able to sustain without collapsing. I am planning to build a site with thousands of fictional profiles (up to 100k) and have no "active" members. All profiles are meant to be viewable for site visitors (non-members), so no one will be logging in, just visiting and browsing fictional profiles. Any thoughts?

best regards,

Havelock

Quite a few if your doing it that way!

Because there is no interaction between members, it should handle as many as you can put in I assume.

As long as you dont have the messenger, nor the shoutbox (they pull loads of power)

and take out everything that is not needed. I say go for it and let us know how many hundred thousand that you have before it finnally blows up!LOL

Derrick

Thanks for the responce. No messenger, videos, shoutbox etc., only plain text and around 2-3 pictures per profile. I've seen regular dolphin based sites with 180k profiles (http://polchat.pl/), so it's a good sign indeed, but I've also heard that you have to optimise SQL queries and generally do some coding to make the site run fast... and thats what I'm most afraid of (I'm really poor at SQL). What sort of hosting will be enough for such site? Regular, shared hosting or should I go for VPS or even dedicated? Mind, that there will be many site visitors but no memebers to log in.

Well far as hosting I would stay with shared as long as I could!

Until your host says you have overloaded the server which I dont forsee until your site really gets active and then upgrade to a dedicated server.

And for your site purpose, how many members would you need to fullfill the damand?

200'000--500'000---1 million?

That would be the question.

if its only 2 or 3 hundred thousand, You should be fine!

BUT! Its not the fake profiles that will have the interaction. Its your visitors! How many visitors do you expect that keeps hitting the search button and viewing the profiles?

I have a general idea of what you have in your mind about the draw, but  most here wouldn't have that kind of knowledge. we all have member bases, not visitor bases.

If you have say only a hundred visitors a day, well than no problem. but if you have one million visitors a day (hell if you have that many, I am jumping on board LOL) then you will have to upgrade to dedicated server I am sure!

Well, I plan for maximum 100k "fake" profiles and no more than 1000 visitors daily... but it's just a rough estimation (the visitor number I mean)... What would be most Dolphin friendly (and reliable) hosting company in this case? I've browsed several and they demand circa 10$ monthly for shared hosting (which is perfectly fine for me)... or do you actually have to pay more for truly reliable service?

I would really have a lot of advice on that, since I use a small company my self untill evrything gets going as it should and then I'll switch over.

But my recommendation would be terabyte-hosting! ( I think thats how its spelled)

I say this because the fella that runs it is a boonex unity member and he has a lot of knowledge about this system just in case you have issues.

Other than that you can check out the sugested host from boonex. read the reviews, some good, some bad.

Ok, thanks a lot for all information I'll post my site once it's up... or if I have more noob questions