Hi,

I've been developing DNN web applications for a few years now so know my way round the architecture and API pretty well. However, I now have a potential requirement to develop a vast social networking site with lots of video streaming, forums, blogs, instant messaging, e-commerce etc... Usual social networking stuff but with particular emphasis on the video and audio streaming.

The projected growth could be huge with millions of yearly page impressions and many thousands of simultaneous media streams. Also, the site may need to operate on mobile platforms and be multi-lingual.

I'm aware that there are some big DNN sites out there and that it runs on web farm architecture. However, I'd be very gratful for any feedback, advice or experiences that people may have. I realise this is a big subject but I'm just starting to chip-away at the requirements.

Many Thanks!

Hi Jeff,

Yep, sorry... it's not that specific is it...? So, what I'm asking is:-

1. Are there any DNN issues with streaming massive amounts of video? I'm aware it still just a .NET but I'm interested in knowing if there are any other DNN related 'bottlenecks'? Hopefully this will be more of a hardware/network configuration issue?

2. I know DNN runs in a web-farm environment. Anyone got any experiences of running large sites on a web-farm environment (50,000 users, 2 Million page impressions a month). Again, are there any DNN issues with these sort of volumes or is it just an architecture/configuration issue?

These are still fairly generic questions but anything you can give is fine!

Thanks.

Keep in mind that all "very large social network sites" operate on thoroughly customized code.  Including in many cases, OS and web server customization.

Jeff