Re: A few questions about system requirements

Steven wrote:

Howdy,

            I'm going to be writing an app for our company that handles

the day-to-day processes here and I have a question for the experienced devs out here that would know the ins and outs of working with CMS and good stats on what is needed for a server.

            I want to integrate my system with an existing CMS so I can

have the username/password management and security features with the notifications, ratings, and user calendars all bundled into one thing. Obviously, there is going to be some kickback for the ones who originally wrote all the goodies, but I need to know what will best suit my company's needs.

            There will be about 15,000 'files' entered in per year with

about 70 employees banging away at it daily, that's not much... trust me...

I have a friend running a forum/CMS which is getting pounded (at noon) with 60 hits/second. He's running a P3 1.6Ghz, 1GB memory, Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) and he's coping just fine ;) (it's shared hosting aswell) so I will probably need to

build a pretty hoss database server and front-end to handle all of the php function calls. The big thing though, is would it be feasible to use a CMS system, could it handle that many people hammering away at it, and easily hook in all of the CMS's features into my main app (such as using smarty or somesuch) Please advise and thanks in advance! Steven A.