I recently posted a question to the DotNetNuke forums which I think got rejected (It hasn't shown up on the list yet and no word on it at all since) so I thought I would post a quick note up on my blog echo'ing my question.

What I would like to know is if anyone has had any experience in a large scale roll-out of this popular portal.  Specifically, have you ever had upwards to a million plus users in the system, and had to deal with the administration of these users.

Lets take a quick example. When you administer a Role (add/remove users in that role) you are given a drop down list of all the current users in the system.  If you had 1000, 10,000 or even 1,000,000 users in your DNN instance this list would be horrendous to load not to mention scroll through.

I don't care about DNN's ability to handle the load itself, or the ability to host it on a Web Farm; but instead its ability to handle so many users in the UI.

I have managed a few DNN instances with a few hundred users, but nothing in the range of 1 million+. 

Have you?

2 Comments

• douglas said Thursday, January 4, 2007 4:01:36 PM

  I've never had a million users and don't have much experience with DNN, but the scenario you bring up sounds like a valid concern. I've seen a lot of applications that list all users in a listbox or dropdown and have always wondered how this would work when you have thousands of users. Maybe DNN does something when the list is past a certain length? I don't know...

• Clothing said Monday, September 7, 2009 6:21:12 PM

  Wow! Its imposible... I'm realy shocked :/