Hello everyone,

Not new to DNN, but I want to develop a site that will have some complexities, and I want to architect it correctly.

I am developing a product. Lets assume that I could have 1 million users per region.

They will not all be logged into the system at the same time, but in certain months, we could see 20% login per week for 5 weeks.

I plan to have this hosted.  The data is relatively small approximately 100GB + the DNN overhead

Questions.  

1.  How should I architect the data  Should I have one instance of DNN and Data tables, or should I have a portal for each sub group (Assume 2000 user in each sub-group)? 

a.  Can DNN handle 1 million users in the user tables?

b.  Should I create 1 portal for each sub-group?  Would I use one login table and redirect to each portal.  (Is this a feature of DNN8 or will I have to create a reference table)

 

I can combine all the data in one set of tables and use logic to keep the data separate, but I would prefer to have each sub-group have their own set of tables.  Which seems like multiple portals.

I really want a seamless appearance.  Single Sign-On with redirect to portal would be ideal.  How is SSO accomplished in DNN?  (I dont have ADAP or anything like that).  These users will be registered through the normal add user process.

 

Looking forward to your ideas and information.

 

-Joe

 

 

 

 

 

 

@Joe:

Welcome to the DNN community. There are a number of sites out there running hundreds of thousands and even millions of users, but when you get to sites of that size, each has it's own unique needs and are therefore put together somewhat differently. All in all, DNN can and does manage the traffic, but there are some features that might not be 100% as usable for that many users, and you also will want to be sure to properly test and plan for that on both the infrastructure and software sides.

As for turbo scripts, Sebastian currently does a great job of keeping them up with maintenance updates and DNN releases. He's very passionate about and works very hard on this, and it shows. In fact, there are many people that love them and upgrade them regularly with him. However, please be aware that they are technically considered a fork of DNN Platform, as the scripts manipulate the DNN database - which is *not* considered to be part of the API. Regardless to how well intended this kind of update is, there isn't a software application out there which would support this kind of extensibility.

A worst case scenario using turbo scripts would be... What if Sebastian all of a sudden wasn't available to update the turbo scripts? While Sebastian has a track record of being around in our community more than nearly everyone else, people do disappear from open source communities from time to time. This is a real risk. You might very well be stuck, unable to upgrade, with your only recourse to be to investigate the database against a clean database and write your own scripts to bring it back to "core," or migrate your entire site to a new clean DNN installation. Either prospect is expensive in every possible way. In contrast, if a module or theme doesn't work, you can generally just uninstall them. This alone is enough for me to not use them for my own sites.

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Will Strohl

Upendo Ventures DNN experts since 2003 Official provider of the Hotcakes Commerce Cloud and SLA support