those with large sites: what cms do you use?

[koen]

Planning ahead. ;)

Maybe most of you use a custom build one, but that's not an option for me. And I don't know if any of the current ones available (joomla etc) can handle, let's say 2000 pages en 50.000 visitors a month (which isn't that big). So if any of you have experience with these cms-es handling, or not, a site with decent proportions I'd like to hear of them. :-) Thanks.

[moishe]

Certainly there are sites of that size and traffic running on the standards like Mambo, PHPNuke, Plone etc...
Since these all run on a database, it would seem the more important issue would be that you hosting provider allows for a very large database and that the server you are on is very fast, you would probably want a dedicated server for this...

Definetly avoid non-database CMS's like Guppy as a site that size would be quite slow.

[choster]

What are your parameters-- platform, price, licensing... 2000 is not that many pages and 50K/month is not that many visitors by enterprise standards. The Onion, which surely exceeds those figures, runs on Drupal.

[koen]

I'm familiar with php. And I support open source. I've looked at all the portal systems at opensourcecms. I don't doubt every of them can be used for any amount of visitors and data, given the right server power and money, but some of them will be more efficient in resource usage and configurability.