Large site management

Better to build off a framework or open source CMS?

[ridicacool]

Hey all -

I manage a large site for a medium sized company. Currently we use Drupal and have used Joomla in the past to maintain our site.

I am wondering if anyone has had experience maintaining a large website -- and what you used to manage it.

I ask because it seems like using open source CMS systems are great for smaller sites, but you end up trying to hack a way around them to accomplish all the different tasks necessary.

I am leaning towards using a framework with possibly having a database backend for static articles. All dynamic content would be served up from the MVC framework.

Any and all thoughts would be appreciated.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Content management systems have come a long way and you can likely find a "plugin" to do just about anything. You also have an army of people ready to help, the open source community, and any problem you may run into has been experienced and resolved by others.

What a CMS doesn't give you is plug and play compatibility with your (or any) site. It provides a generic setup only so customizing it to stand out from the other million websites using that CMS is important (and fun).

[caribguy]

Don't forget open source frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Python powered ones like Pylons, TurboGears, Django and Zope.