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Architecture of a Portal

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Daniel Lopes

Wednesday 03 June 2009 12:00:25 pm

Hi All,

What would be the ideal architecture for a large-scale portal?
The structure must be horizontal or vertical?
Where can I find content examples of more complex sites or portals?

Thanks

Andreas Kaiser

Thursday 04 June 2009 9:02:47 am

Hi,

Good question, also waiting for opinions/experience of others.

I'm not a architecture expert, but perhaps the best is to have a mix of them...

With eZ Publish we have deployed horizontal systems (using cluster). In one case we could say it is a hor/vert mix because mysql server in the cluster environment had a previous vertical architecture design...

With server cost dropping every day (for example some days ago one of my server providers has launched new root servers with 8GB for 49€/month!) a horizontal architecture could be even cheap...

Also for large-scale portals based on eZ Publish I would take in care varnish (or other caches) that also can act in cluster mode.

If you will be in Paris (http://ez.no/company/ez_conference_awards/web_content_management_track) the presentation of Dariusz Glazewski and Frank Dege could be very helpful in your case...

eZ Partner in Madrid (Spain)
Web: http://www.atela.net/

Daniel Lopes

Monday 08 June 2009 7:14:28 am

Thanks Andreas.

I hope to find more details, but your words was very importants.

Regards

Andreas Kaiser

Monday 08 June 2009 9:42:07 am

No problem ;)

If you need some more in detail help just send me a message with more information and I will try to help you...

eZ Partner in Madrid (Spain)
Web: http://www.atela.net/

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