I have been using DNN since version 2.x, installing and configuring it for a number of customers.  During these last 5 years my largest customer has been a mid-size private University, but I have not yet given them DNN.  I didn't feel it was ready.  Now, I think the time has come.

"My" university receives approximately 2.5 million unique visits a year.  Needless to say, the web-framework must handle that load.  In addition the framework must be extensible and supportive of a web farm (Eventually.  I don't see my university web farming today, but in 3 years... Today we run on an active-passive cluster which suits us just fine.)

My largest concerns are performance related.  I have been reading threads and I believe I can solve the basic issues, but I need more opinions.  What do you all think?  Would you trust DNN with a site this large?

Regards,
Mark

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Would I trust DNN on a site that large, yes I would.

There are actually quite a few sites out there running heavy traffic DNN sites, yes you have to do some performance tweaks here and there, but overall I think it can handle it fairly well.

I know that the Austrailian Football League is one of the heavy traffic sites out there....

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I've built a college website on DNN. It does about 7K uniques per day with 20K page views. Its running on a single box Dell 1850 with 2 Gigs of Ram and a SQL 2000 backend back end with similar specs. This is not the only site nor the only DNN instance on the box, but it recieves the most traffic. I've never even seen my set up slow down and it serves pages fine. This is an older version of DNN before the performance enhancements where done to the core a few versions ago. The core is modified some in the install but not significant. So I would say you will be more than fine with 2.5 Million Uniques per year. I think DotNetNuke.com does that in a month and perhaps even more. 

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