Whats the best CMS System for bigger sites?

dubious said:

My vote is with Drupal, but I work exclusively in it so I may be biased.
The reason why I use Drupal so much is that you can literally create anything without touching code if you know the modules well enough. So for example, a website might have article series so I can create a content type for that that fits into rules within the taxonomy and views of the website. Or, I might have cross-website promotion so I could have several websites running off the same Drupal install. The only thing with Drupal is that you have to know the core (and recommended core) modules rather well to truly explore it's flexibility....

Click to expand...

I would argue all of the above could be said about Joomla (my choice and recommendation)

Cheers.

portalweb said:

CMS using WP will do fine. It's all about the hardware and web server software that makes or break WP site.
Well-tuned WP site on real hosting/powerful server can scale up easily to handle millions of pageviews/day.

Click to expand...

Well said and I agree, but you could also replace WP in your statement will Joomla and Drupal as well.

I have no experience with Joomla...I can tell you that Wordpress is coming around but there are concerns with URL structures, semantic tags and generally poorly programmed themes (275 calls to the database to render a woo commerce page for instance)

Drupal is a resource hog. A company I work with recently hosed the server when they sent out around 8000 emails to register for a webinar on a drupal site. It turned out that the server limit was set too low. On further searching it looks like each simultaneous user on a drupal site will use about 125 meg of ram, so even at a 100 gig you can only accommodate around 800 simultaneous users on that system.

Usually that wouldn't be a problem, but if you are sending out all those email at the same time and you have some good success with click through you can bring down the site ... as we learned