Hi, I'm new to DNN and have been actively researching the framework for the last week or so.  Basically it awesome!  But, it seems it may only be awesome for smaller sites and/or corporate intranets who are in need of a CMS solution.  My question is whether or not DNN can be used for a high traffic site... is it scalable?  and to what degree?  One of our sites gets about 300,000 hits per day...  assuming the hardware infrastucture is there (load balancer + clustering) is the codebase of DNN capable of handling this level of demand?   Thanks for all of your opinions on this- this will greatly aid in the decision to implement DNN. 

troy

The AFL site (as well as the Australian National Rugby League site) are examples of sites that have implemented web farms to handle the load.

This site uses a single webserver and a single SQL Server box and handles 200 - 250,000 hits a day.

So as Mitchell states DNN can handle heavy load sites - as long as the infrastructure is managed well - and the appropriate caching settings are used.

The Afl.com.au site is not using a single webserver. It has over 20 webservers the last I heard.  I think Charles may have been thinking single file server, but I believe they are setup with two different databases that are geographically seperated.

It is also using PageBlaster to get the performance they needed to handle the load.