Is Joomla Enough To Handle A Large Project?
January 22, 2010 under FAQ
I have outsourced a project and the bids are coming in. One programmer who seems competent is offering to do the backend only with Joomla. This is going to be a large social network site, with some variations on the standard and will be ever changing as it grows. Can Joomla handle LOTS of visitors and will it be easy for changes to be made to the site by myself or future programmers. Am I better off getting unique code written? Thanks!
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Joomla is a great CMS tool and it will be easy for someone to take over managing the website because of the easy to use administration dashboard. Is your web server ready for lots of visitors? Will your website reside on a dedicated server or a shared server? In regards to the traffic, those are the questions you should pose to the web administrator or the web hosting company.
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Well Joomla’s actual performance with regards to visitors is strongly dictated by your server’s hardware, operating system, and bandwidth/connection speed.
Having said that, keep in mind that Joomla is open source and still being upgraded on a regular basis. It does make web sites easy to administer, provides different levels for content authority, users, etc but keep in mind that most open source projects do have a few rough edges. If you are willing to get it for free, rough edges are to be expected. But because it is open source and written in PHP I believe you will find tons of addons, upgrades, and programmers fluent in PHP to add on. So your extensibility is there for the future.
The drawback to unique code is that it usually costs more and of course there is a period of time where bugs will creep up and bite you until they are all ironed out through extensive test cases.
So in short if you are looking for something easy and cheap but with some rough edges you can go Joomla without much hit to speed…. if you want to go with something more polished, a little bit on the pricey side (depending on the scale of the project too) then you could go with the custom programming.
If you want to get into this further, draw out two columns with a list of your criteria and the different solutions at the top, then rate each and find out which one works out better.
To get you started I would write…
Price to implement Joomla = Your time, Custom = 50-150/hr
Time to install Joomla = 10-30 minutes, Custom = Depends
Polished overall Joomla = No so much, Custom = Usually very polished
List out like 20 different things and compare. Then you should have your answers. I have listed a site which talks about some Joomla advantages