Looked through some of the ‘Built on CodeIgnitor’ links and they all seem pretty small scale projects.  Just curious if there are any large websites built on CodeIgnitor. Thanks.

CampusLIVE.com!

(no idea)

Define “Large” ?

wiredesignz - 11 November 2007 03:49 AM

Define “Large” ?

Large as in traffic (sorry for the ambiguity).

50,000+ visitors a day. In Alexa 10k range.

campuslive is clean—good job with it!

It is difficult to tell.  Not every body who uses CI publicizes the fact.  As much as I love CI and EllisLab, if I were to build an enterprise site with CI, I wouldn’t make that info public.  If someone were to find an exploit in CI you would be extra vulnerable to attack.

Very true

I guess the next question is can CI handle/scale for a large scale project that serves hundreds of thousands of pages a day?

With correct settings I see no reason why it would struggle. Just dont autoload too much, enable view and db cacheing, compress your output and it should be fine!

thurting - 11 November 2007 08:02 AM

It is difficult to tell.  Not every body who uses CI publicizes the fact.  As much as I love CI and EllisLab, if I were to build an enterprise site with CI, I wouldn’t make that info public.  If someone were to find an exploit in CI you would be extra vulnerable to attack.

This is a good point.  ExpressionEngine has some very, very notable sites running with it, but we’ve entered into specific agreements with them to not publicize that information… which is too bad because they would be great “show pieces” for us.

Thanks Derek and everyone else.

I look forward to sharing my CI built site when its done.

Cheers!

moddb.com is probably the largest CI site that I know of right now

I imagine this http://veerle.duoh.com/ is a pretty good show piece for ee?

don’t know if you ask just for sites or if you are thinking about building a site. in second case - hmm, I say you should define a bit better WHAT do you want to SERVE for your 50,000+ visitors.
means: when your server/cluster goes easy with a native php/mysql solution - CI can do it (nearly) as fast or even better with a clever .htaccess-modified caching.

check CI’s code - just a frontcontroller, some decorators - really thousand ways to improve performance coz YOU control the code - not the framework as smetimes felt in rails, symphony or cake. run some ab performance test against some activerecord queries ... the “view” in the CI mvC is lightweigthed PHP solution - bleeding fast (no smarty-headaches

If I had a web site serving hundreds of thousands of pages per day, I would probably either be bankrupt or letting someone else worry about it.

In this moment, my german PHP Mag arrived. There is a nice article about CI inside and they say

“...excellent performance ...”