Mambo OS Performance; Experienced Mambo Developers required

[Ritchie]

My company has been selected to implement an online article service, suitable for accepting contributions from hundreds of correspondents via the Internet, with further editing to be performed in-house via a content management system. Having done a few small scale (10 - 3,000 user) rollouts of Mambo Open Source for various clients, we already know what it can do, how easy it is to extend etc.

What we don't know is exactly how much 'real life' traffic it can cope with when it comes to hundreds of concurrent users over extended periods of time. The only large scale Mambo magazine style of website I know of is devshed.com, which I believe is based on the commercial version of Mambo.

In summary, can anyone help out with answers to the following:

• Has a study or stress test ever been done on Mambo Open Source to establish how it actually performs under simulated real world conditions? Would such studies show that the biggest performance bottlenecks were most likely due to Apache/PHP itself, or MySQL or the underlying Open Source Mambo code?
  
• Apart from Devshed, are there any other high traffic, high multiple concurrent user implementations of Mambo (either commercial or open source versions)?
  
• Can anyone advise the day-to-day differences between Mambo Open Source and commercial versions (I'm really looking for ease-of-use & features feedback from users of both versions – I’ve already read the text on Miro’s site)

On a related subject, having trawled through the search engines and various Mambo forums we think we have a good idea of the experienced Mambo developers we may consider asking to help us accelerate the development and implementation of certain core aspects of the project. The latest information we have from our client is that they will give the go-ahead for the development process to start around July 2004 with estimated implementation August 2004.

I'd urge any experienced Mambo developer who'd like to be considered for this project to send us a CV/resume - we'll follow up submitted applications between now and the end of June.

Visit http://www.implement.it/mambojobs for further instructions about submitting CVs/resumes; please don't forget to include references for the URLs listed in your CV, an indication of your rates and details about any development work you've done as part of an online project team.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,
Ritchie Anderson, Director
Energo Ltd
www.implement.it

[stingrey]

The only large scale Mambo magazine style of website I know of is devshed.com, which I believe is based on the commercial version of Mambo.

Actually it is running Mambo Open Source (not Miro, which is the commercial relative and a somehwat distant relative at that).

It utilises several commercial components for Mambo, and has been heavily modified, but it is still Mambo that powers that site and all the devshed sites.

This is discussed here:
http://forums.devshed.com/t114855/s....ighlight=mambo

[mmx]

Phil Taylor was involved in the DevShed integration and handled their custom requirements.

Originally Posted by stingrey

Actually it is running Mambo Open Source (not Miro, which is the commercial relative and a somehwat distant relative at that).

It utilises several commercial components for Mambo, and has been heavily modified, but it is still Mambo that powers that site and all the devshed sites.

This is discussed here:
http://forums.devshed.com/t114855/s....ighlight=mambo

[mmx]

You might want to contact Steven Spignatoro (spignataro) to see if these requirements can be rolled into the MamboZINE project. With the number of developers working on that single project, this might be possible. It's basically an online magazine and your requirements are probably somewhat related to some of their requirements for accepting content from contributing editors.

[Ritchie]

Thanks for that information - very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Ritchie

[Admin]

Hi,

Over at Mamboportal.com we do currently have between 10k and 15k visitors a day with up to 400 users online at the same time. I know this is still not large, but everything runs very smooth. The only problems we do have are the user registration. It seems that the current Mambo mailfunctions are a little buggy when it comes to high traffic. This hopefully will be gone with 4.6 and the new phpMailer integration.

Besides our website be sure to take a look at www.mamble.com. About 400 Mambo based websites are listed there. Maybe you find another high traffic website there.

[mmx]

Last January after the MOS 4.5 release, I visited mamboportal.com one night to find 351 registered users online with 1021 guests. I jotted this down in a notebook for use in something else I was working on. Mambo itself was handling the load well, but the third-party forum was having a few problems with this load.

[Ritchie]

Thanks for the information everyone.

FYI Robert Castley also posted some stats re. mamberserver.com at http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=7377

PS. Please visit http://www.implement.it/mambojobs for further instructions about submitting CVs/resumes if you'd like to get involved in the
development and implementation of a large scale online article service based on MamboOS; please remember to include references for the URLs listed in your CV, an indication of your rates and details about any development work you've done as part of an online project team. Since my original post we have decided to only use one person to develop and roll out the site to ensure consistency. If you have any questions please let me know.

Cheers,
Ritchie