A number of questions

["Protogerellis, Alexandros (UK - London)" <ap...@deloitte.co.uk>]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to make up my mind on whether to use Roller as our blogging
platform... I've been looking around and trying it out all day but still
have a few questions I can't seem to find an answer for. I would really
appreciate any help, thoughts and comments!

So, here goes:
1) Are there any figures or records of how scalable roller is? I know
Sun uses it for its corporate blogs, but is that a standard Roller build
or something slightly different?

2) RSS related questions:
- Is it possible to deliver feeds via secure RSS?
- Is it possible to create custom feeds based on the tags of posts?

3) Is it possible to email daily summaries of posts and so on? 

4) Is there a way for users to rank individual posts?

5) Is it possible to produce a report on number of posts added, site
views, unique users, RSS feed consumption etc?

6) It seems that Active directory integration is possible, however there
appear to be a couple of glitches on Roller 2.1 (e.g. user needs to
restart browser). Have these been fixed in 3.1?

That's it...

Any help is much appreciated...

Many thanks,
Alex
 
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RE: A number of questions

["Protogerellis, Alexandros (UK - London)" <ap...@deloitte.co.uk>]

Thanks a lot Leon, this is very detailed and useful! 

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Leon Messerschmidt [mailto:leon.messerschmidt@lonelyplanet.com.au]

Sent: 29 August 2007 23:41
To: user@roller.apache.org
Subject: Re: A number of questions


Hi Alex,

1. We ran some load tests and we could easily ramp things up to 500
threads concurrently reading blogs (JMeter).  The first bottle-neck we
got was with apache/mod_jk.  I didn't go into much tweaking after that,
because it extrapolated to enough capacity to carry us through the first
year; and the load on the app server and db was relatively low. 

2. We're using Apache mod_rewrite & mod_proxy to do some magic with RSS
feeds. Perhaps this could work for you too? I've been looking at RSS
feeds on tags, but it is a relatively low priority for me. Shouldn't be
difficult to add.

3. Not as far as I know. Perhaps someone else can comment?

4. Not as far as I know. Perhaps someone else can comment?

5. The easiest way to get stats might be to use Google Analytics or
something similar. You can easily embed the javascript into theme
templates or add a servlet filter that adds it.

6. Haven't gotten around to this yet, but at some stage I'll have to do
some integration with third-party Single Sign-On tools

~ Leon

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:48 +0100, Protogerellis, Alexandros (UK -
London) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to make up my mind on whether to use Roller as our blogging
> platform... I've been looking around and trying it out all day but
still
> have a few questions I can't seem to find an answer for. I would
really
> appreciate any help, thoughts and comments!
> 
> So, here goes:
> 1) Are there any figures or records of how scalable roller is? I know
> Sun uses it for its corporate blogs, but is that a standard Roller
build
> or something slightly different?
> 
> 2) RSS related questions:
> - Is it possible to deliver feeds via secure RSS?
> - Is it possible to create custom feeds based on the tags of posts?
> 
> 3) Is it possible to email daily summaries of posts and so on? 
> 
> 4) Is there a way for users to rank individual posts?
> 
> 5) Is it possible to produce a report on number of posts added, site
> views, unique users, RSS feed consumption etc?
> 
> 6) It seems that Active directory integration is possible, however
there
> appear to be a couple of glitches on Roller 2.1 (e.g. user needs to
> restart browser). Have these been fixed in 3.1?
> 
> That's it...
> 
> Any help is much appreciated...
> 
> Many thanks,
> Alex
>
 
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Re: A number of questions

[Leon Messerschmidt <le...@lonelyplanet.com.au>]

Hi Alex,

1. We ran some load tests and we could easily ramp things up to 500
threads concurrently reading blogs (JMeter).  The first bottle-neck we
got was with apache/mod_jk.  I didn't go into much tweaking after that,
because it extrapolated to enough capacity to carry us through the first
year; and the load on the app server and db was relatively low. 

2. We're using Apache mod_rewrite & mod_proxy to do some magic with RSS
feeds. Perhaps this could work for you too? I've been looking at RSS
feeds on tags, but it is a relatively low priority for me. Shouldn't be
difficult to add.

3. Not as far as I know. Perhaps someone else can comment?

4. Not as far as I know. Perhaps someone else can comment?

5. The easiest way to get stats might be to use Google Analytics or
something similar. You can easily embed the javascript into theme
templates or add a servlet filter that adds it.

6. Haven't gotten around to this yet, but at some stage I'll have to do
some integration with third-party Single Sign-On tools

~ Leon

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:48 +0100, Protogerellis, Alexandros (UK -
London) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to make up my mind on whether to use Roller as our blogging
> platform... I've been looking around and trying it out all day but still
> have a few questions I can't seem to find an answer for. I would really
> appreciate any help, thoughts and comments!
> 
> So, here goes:
> 1) Are there any figures or records of how scalable roller is? I know
> Sun uses it for its corporate blogs, but is that a standard Roller build
> or something slightly different?
> 
> 2) RSS related questions:
> - Is it possible to deliver feeds via secure RSS?
> - Is it possible to create custom feeds based on the tags of posts?
> 
> 3) Is it possible to email daily summaries of posts and so on? 
> 
> 4) Is there a way for users to rank individual posts?
> 
> 5) Is it possible to produce a report on number of posts added, site
> views, unique users, RSS feed consumption etc?
> 
> 6) It seems that Active directory integration is possible, however there
> appear to be a couple of glitches on Roller 2.1 (e.g. user needs to
> restart browser). Have these been fixed in 3.1?
> 
> That's it...
> 
> Any help is much appreciated...
> 
> Many thanks,
> Alex
>  
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